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A comment on Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into Steam and Reddit?.

Re:Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into... by kristoff_it on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:29PM (#15501651)
Use Firefox Containers and live happy.

https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/containers/

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Re:Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into... by bwl on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @03:59PM (#15502418)
Great advice, and Containers has actually graduated from experiments to a full release.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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Re:Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into... by sf_rob on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:25PM (#15503287)
The add-on still has functionality / faster iteration that isn't quite baked into the release version.

If you want to be more aggressive, you can also toggle the configs privacy.resistFingerprinting and privacy.trackingprotection.enabled which will probably break some websites.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into... by phkahler on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:53PM (#15502950)
But if the comment above yours is correct, you're defeating a small security measure:

>> It's basic fingerprinting used by every major security-sensitive service, like banks.

>> The more entropy (unique bits of data) about your browser context they can collect, the easier to recognize you and see if you're a human or not (and block if they need to).

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Re:Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into... by Frogolocalypse on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @08:43PM (#15504562)
A security measure for some is a privacy breech for others.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does my credit union check if I'm logged into... by binaryapparatus on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @04:19PM (#15502579)
Great link, thanks. I had no idea this exists.
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