Post B4Y0JW0im6thlCCbJI by amoroso@oldbytes.space
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 (DIR) Post #B4Y0JW0im6thlCCbJI by amoroso@oldbytes.space
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       Yesterday, when I opened Gmail in Firefox on Linux, I found myself logged out of my Google account.In place of Gmail was a landing page extolling the virtues of Gemini in Gmail and providing prominent options only for signing up or creating a new account. I managed to follow a less prominent option to just sign into Gmail. I dont know how but, although I ended up in the account recovery flow rather than the login flow, I still managed to sign in.Tech giants are throwing every dark pattern at forcing AI. This is known, no surprise here. But there's something else I don't understand.In addition to my Google account I found myself logged out of all my accounts on unrelated sites I was signed into from Firefox, even in multi-account containers. Even non Google sites with no Google account or Gmail address in the credentials. How did they do that?#gmail #google #gemini #ai
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y0JWFxrR5gWTKm4O by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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       @amoroso@oldbytes.space delete the file where all the cookie info is stored (that's my guess)"Inside your Firefox profile folder, you’ll find a file that specifically handles cookies. Historically, Firefox used file: cookies.sqlite"https://en.fmyly.com/article/where-are-the-cookies-stored-in-firefox/
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y3imlNvSpIosloVE by amoroso@oldbytes.space
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       @brettm Can any website delete that file?
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y3imvfJF39Kla1Wi by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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       @amoroso@oldbytes.space it should not be able to. But bear in mind Google pays Firefox a lot of money and tells them what to do, Also, Firefox is millions of lines of constantly-changing code, some of which insanely is "written" by LLMs
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y406qqUZLY2paL7g by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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       @amoroso@oldbytes.space sidenote i did notice over the past year that even when "don't aklow this app to change settings is selected" Chromium still was able to change Android settings, it must have been messing with my DNS because people's Fedi pages were almost impossible to view via any Android browser. Even with no Chromium running in background. As soon as I deleted Chromium pages loaded normally again.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y49qCfFC5jJ7QmLg by amoroso@oldbytes.space
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       @brettm That's possible, but I wonder why the security community didn't notice such a vulnerability.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Y49qPmSQaDxnZFnE by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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       @amoroso@oldbytes.space i am sure there are thousands of security vulns in every giagantic modern browser that no security community has found yet
       
 (DIR) Post #B4YoRL74Ah1nzE5v5E by amoroso@oldbytes.space
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       @brettm Okay but this is really major.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4YoRLSKtc2f3C2uEi by brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org
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       @amoroso@oldbytes.space i suppose it is. So used to big companies riding roughshod over everyone that I didn't think too much about it!