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Re:I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online... by majorchord on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @05:18PM (#47239882)
I am logged into way too many sites to do that unfortunately. I do use a password manager with a browser plugin to make it easier, but it's still a lot of manual work to re-login to all the sites I use on a normal basis, for both work and home, every time I restart my browser.

Would be nice if there was some other solution, like maybe encrypting the browser profile and then requiring a pin/password/biometric/something to unlock it on each start.

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Re:I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online... by drnick1 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @05:22PM (#47239924)
It shouldn't take more than one second to log into a website using the Firefox password manager.
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Re:I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online... by majorchord on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @05:46PM (#47240179)
In my case it often can and does.

Many sites I use force email or SMS-based 2FA, sometimes in addition to "security questions" and/or have other multiple steps of authorization (like captchas) required; it's often not just a simple username/password for me.

Now multiply that by 25 different sites. Not happening.

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Re:I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online... by drnick1 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:02PM (#47240351)
One option for that is to use multiple Firefox profiles. The main general-purpose browsing profile would have a hardened configuration, while dedicated profiles are used for other websites that should remain logged in.
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Re:I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online... by boisterousness on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @05:08AM (#47245396)
There's a Cookie AutoDelete plugin [1] that cleans up cookies, cache, etc for a site after all of its tabs are closed. You can exclude sites that you want to stay logged in to.

[1] https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete

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