Keith Stanley wants to know if he should logout of Web sites that require a login

Remember when there was no conventional logout option on Amazon? You’ve probably also noticed that Google and Microsoft sites try to keep you logged in, and services like Discord hide the logout somewhere hard to find

  • Jojonintendo@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    If your browser is set to delete cookies on closing it, your sessions should be gone anyway when you open it again. I don’t logout, personally, I trust Firefox’s cookie jar to isolate them by website, which makes them much less useful.

    • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      your sessions should be gone anyway when you open it again

      Your session cookie will be gone, but your session is still valid until the server decides to invalidate it by a time-out. (Unless they save the whole session in the cookie)

      • Jojonintendo@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        That makes sense. Would there be a way to re-use this same session if the cookie has been deleted though? I know that closing the browser isn’t ideal, but if both the cookie and the login session are needed, if you remove one of them it should be enough.

        • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
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          3 years ago

          Session ID’s could be stolen (XSS, malware) or guessed (bad implementation of the id generation). Sites that want you to be logged-in all the time know of that risk and will use (invasive) techniques to assess how likely it is that the use of a given session is legit. (GeoIP, Fingerprinting)