Why do they even put the option there if it doesn’t do anything?

  • Björn Tantau
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    192 years ago

    It’s dependant on cookies. If whatever you checked that on deletes its cookies it can’t remember the “device”. The wording is all wrong but I guess they have to do that because plebs don’t know that this is running in a browser.

  • @amnesiacrobat@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    One of my work systems is like this. What’s even better is that not only does it log you out randomly, it also doesn’t reload the screen so you don’t know you’re logged out until you try to use it.

  • @Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    I think this is like that “close door” button in the elevator and the pedestrian “press for crosswalk” button. It doesn’t do shit.

  • Veedems
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    02 years ago

    Every single month with my mortgage provider. Drives me nuts to be so mildly inconvenienced