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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by joshuagarner on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:45PM (#50489392)
When was the last time that happened to a Gmail account? It has unlimited cookie sessions.
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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by longcookiesaas on Friday November 13, 2026 @04:18PM (#50489839)
I actually did this for my small saas Ive sold to a couple dozen companies, and while all my programming friends at the coworking office said I was crazy, Gmail and facebook were my go to answers. If they can do it safely, I might as well try.
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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by Hnrobert42 on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:11PM (#50492917)
Username checks out!
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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by BenjiWiebe on Saturday November 14, 2026 @01:25AM (#50494556)
Yes, they made the account to post that comment. Might as well make the username relevant.
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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by Hnrobert42 on Sunday November 15, 2026 @02:45AM (#50504900)
Ugh. Account created 1 day ago. My mistake. I do apologize for wasting everyone's time and thank you for pointing it out.
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Re:It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on ... by crote on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:03AM (#50498093)
Maybe Gmail, but definitely not GCP. I have to re-auth every day or two for that.

And even with Gmail there's a decent chance it isn't just "blindly trust unlimited-duration token". Cookie stealing is now one of the main forms of credential compromise, so I bet there's some form of browser and/or IP verification going on to demand a reauth when some `curl` instance from a Russian VM tries to make use of it...

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