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If I accept all cookies, why is it not saved that I have accepted all cookies?

Every single time I go to a stack exchange website, I am prompted to accept cookies. Why does this decision not get stored in a cookie? Why do you have to ask me every single time, and no matter what ...
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Can Google and Cloudflare find my SE password?

We are using Firefox with the NoScript extension on GNU/Linux, mainly for security reasons. When we go to the login page of a Stack Exchange site, say https://mathoverflow.net, the NoScript extension ...
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Area 51 login apparently requires the HTTP referer to be on

I have a Mac on Mojave 10.14.6 (10.15 is newest) with Firefox 69.0.1 (according to Mozilla's website, the current release is 69.0.3). I just tried to log in to Area 51, and got stuck on the page ...
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Data dump - available login data?

I am currently working on a project with the Stack Exchange data. To get more insight it would be great if I could get the login times for each user, not only the dates of comments, posts, etc... ...
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Stack Overflow login (or other OpenID sites) - without accepting cookies from not visited 3rd party sites?

The login to Stack Exchange sites on Firefox only possible if you allow cookies from "not visited 3rd party sites". That's not so nice I think, because normally you won't ever accept cookies from ...
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Please STOP requiring Google profile info, and switch to the other endpoint!

I know this change already took place some months ago, but I wanted to write about this now. Here's the situation: When I click on I login on my Gmail account and get :And I don’t have a public ...
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Prevent Automatic Updates of Profile from Google / Yahoo Logins [duplicate]

Every time I login using my Yahoo account, my profile is automatically updated to include my email ID and Real Name from my Yahoo Account. I find this disconcerting and irritating, as I do not wish to ...
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