• Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    No lie here, just a user who doesn’t understand how cookies work

    I routinely engage with Microsoft services for work and generally only get this after clearing browser data.

    Edit: To clarify, this is not a case of “works on my machine” - in addition to my own, my work involves hundreds of users’ devices with many different browsers and configurations. The dialog is effectively a “Remember Me” checkbox, which stores a cookie. Employing extensive use of privacy tools will affect cookies and is antithetical to the concept of having a site remember who you are and will probably mess with that cookie - not that there’s anything wrong with wanting to protect one’s privacy.

    My point was mostly that this meme isn’t really a typical experience and that experience is likely the result of something they’ve set up for themselves.

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      3 days ago

      I can sign in to a thing, close the app and instantly get it again. On repeat. I’m not even sure I could clear the cookies in the 20 seconds it takes for it to show up again.

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        3 days ago

        Browsers can be configured to clear cookies on close

        Browsers that market themselves for “privacy” probably do it by default

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          Not in a browser, and Firefox doesn’t do it by default anyway as I’d find it very annoying.

          It’s just Microsoft. It doesn’t effect everyone, but it effects a lot of people and Microsoft is just shit. About 20% of the people I work with deal with the same issue of it being required every single time and I bet some of them have never cleared a cookie in their life.

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      3 days ago

      You can easily set a cookie expiration date in 2999. That’s far enough to be indefinite. Then you save the user’s preferences in the database forever to remember when they log in elsewhere.