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I Think Google is at it Again
4/26/2024 | Me

Posted on 04/26/2024 10:50:50 AM PDT by ducttape45

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1 posted on 04/26/2024 10:50:50 AM PDT by ducttape45
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just like my Facebook account wont show any X content or memes without added layers to access deliberately blocking clicks


2 posted on 04/26/2024 10:56:45 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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I’m running Windows 11 with Google Chrome and have not noticed any of that.


3 posted on 04/26/2024 10:58:16 AM PDT by caver ( )
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Are you signed into chrome and if so, is the prompt asking if you want to sign in WITH google at those sites?


4 posted on 04/26/2024 10:58:57 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ducttape45

When I try to post a political comment to Free Republic, I sometimes get logged off before I can finish my post.


5 posted on 04/26/2024 11:07:08 AM PDT by oldbrowser ( democrats and Democracy are polar opposites)
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You accidentally got into incognito mode. Close the browser and go into normal mode.


6 posted on 04/26/2024 11:15:11 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: ducttape45

Try using the Brave browser. It doesn’t track you and report you to the Google-Borg.


7 posted on 04/26/2024 11:21:14 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Stop using Windows. It is the virus.


8 posted on 04/26/2024 11:22:26 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay Metal)
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It sounds like he is using a VPN or some other privacy tool that disables cookies and “appears” that he is using a different machine every time he goes online.


9 posted on 04/26/2024 11:24:52 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: ducttape45

I have similar problems on one of my Win10 machines. I have to log into Google every time I restart. It also auto-updates the OS even though I have set it to never auto update. It also won’t update the Chrome browser so I’m running a version that’s at least 18 months old. Tells me to update Chrome but when I do it never installs and tells me to manually download and update which also doesn’t work. I have to log in to get to Gmail and my browser history and saved passwords on that machine. I don’t use that particular device much but I have the exact same model computer in another location and it has no such issues. Something bizarre about that one particular build or something, or some bug somewhere deep inside the OS.

Sorry this is probably no help to you… just saying something is weird for me too and I think it’s a specific issue on that one device. It asks me to upgrade to Win11 I’m really afraid to!


10 posted on 04/26/2024 11:39:33 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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That has happened to me as well. There have been a few times where my laptop would freeze while trying to post something here. Coincidence? I wonder.


11 posted on 04/26/2024 11:41:11 AM PDT by kawhill (kawhill)
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Sounds cookie related. Maybe you should just delete your google account an be done with it.


12 posted on 04/26/2024 11:45:45 AM PDT by Revel
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"every time I close the browser and reopen it"

Sounds like a browser setting is removing a site setting or password credential, when you quit the browser.

13 posted on 04/26/2024 11:46:52 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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I have Brave and Slimjet, and both of them ask me to sign in each time I open the browser. It asks me to use my Google account.


14 posted on 04/26/2024 11:56:06 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Vermont Lt

I’m not using a VPN, and the browsers are not blocking cookies.


15 posted on 04/26/2024 11:57:14 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: monkeyshine
Ah ha, so I'm not the only one this is happening to. It's strange that it happens when I'm using Windows 10, but when I boot to my Windows 7 O/S, everything is fine. That's why I think it's a update that Google is making that they are not telling us about, and Chromium browsers in Windows 7 stopped updating sometime last year.

And what's really weird, is that it started happening on one of my computers days before the other one started doing the same thing. Both of them are dual booted with W7 and W10 so I'm going back to Windows 7 until this nonsense stops. And if it doesn't, then it's back to Linux.

16 posted on 04/26/2024 12:02:26 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Revel

I’ve got the cookies setting as they’ve always been. I’ve been contemplating moving away from all things Google. If this nonsense keeps up, I’m going to.


17 posted on 04/26/2024 12:03:44 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: linMcHlp

That’s what I was thinking, but the browser isn’t set up to do that, yet, that’s what it looks like it’s doing.


18 posted on 04/26/2024 12:04:39 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: ducttape45

Nothing like that has ever happened to me. Google Chrome / Windows 10 Pro.


19 posted on 04/26/2024 12:18:43 PM PDT by plain talk
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Do you have an extension that you use in all your browsers that could be set to remove cookies on sign off?


20 posted on 04/26/2024 12:23:00 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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