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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Is this the reason why I have to "confirm it's you" every time I sign into a Google service now? I appreciate the fact that Firefox's protection is so good that Google doesn't recognize my PC anymore, but it's extremely annoying to have to pull out my phone every time I want to watch YouTube.

This might be what finally convinces me to ditch Google for good. Good job, Firefox devs.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. That's just Google trying to pester you into using Chrome.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I actually had a problem where on Chrome, I would be signed out of my google account every time I restart my computer, while on Firefox, everything works normally. I use Firefox now lol.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This wouldn't make you have to log in every time you watch YouTube. It means by signing in to google.com, youtube.com can't tell that you're signed in. If you sign in on youtube.com, you'll stay signed in on youtube.com unless you have something else deleting your cookies.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well have had my cookies set to delete every time I close the browser for several years now but FF only now started doing this verification thing. A week ago all I had to do was enter my email and password.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 22 points 3 months ago

If you're already deleting all your cookies every time you close, then this new change should be identical to your first login of the day when your browser has no cookies. If you're only getting 2fa requests after this change, then maybe you weren't actually deleting every cookie, and Google was still fingerprinting you somehow.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You may want to just use tab containers for youtube, so that it maintains your session, but also isolates it.

[–] mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Best way to use such (para)sites.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] viking@infosec.pub 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was updated today. 2 years ago it was just an announcement of a beta function in private browsing, the full rollout happened with 129.0.2 which was released a few days back.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cool, thanks. How'd you find the version number? I was looking on the linked post but didn't find it. Maybe just me being tired.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 3 months ago

I don't think it was in the article, but I updated to 192.0.2 yesterday and checked the enhanced tracking protection settings, and block cross-site cookies is now in the default profile, so that was my assumption since it wasn't there previously.

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but it’s extremely annoying to have to pull out my phone every time I want to watch YouTube

This sounds wild. What is your setup? You are using Youtube directly and unmitigated?

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At the moment yes cause I'm too lazy/ADHD to switch to NewPipe.

[–] Landslide7648@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s okay to say lazy. Not everything is ADHD. You’re just lazy.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

FWIW I've been using the lazy excuse all my life until I got the ADHD diagnosis a year ago in my 30s.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Hahaha that's right in my feels and I'm not in this thread