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Is It Really Necessary To Logout of Web Sites? (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 3 years ago by greensand@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] pinknoise@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

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)

[–] Jojonintendo@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Thanks for the detailed answer, I didn't know about that.