Getting Logged Out Often

In the past I've been accustomed to (rather lazily) not bothering to log out from photo.net, even staying logged in for several days or more. But during the last few days I'm having to log on frequently, having apparently been automatically logged out after perhaps two hours. So, has something changed on photo. net? Or could it be something at my end?

I have not had that issue, but anything is possible. Anyone else sharing John's experience?

In the past I've been accustomed to (rather lazily) not bothering to log out from photo.net, even staying logged in for several days or more. But during the last few days I'm having to log on frequently, having apparently been automatically logged out after perhaps two hours. So, has something changed on photo. net? Or could it be something at my end?

I haven't noticed anything different. Have you changed anything...security settings?

I haven't changed anything. And it happens when I'm using different PC's, one running Windows 7, the other windows 10, both with Firefox.

Strange - let's see what other responses might come in.

I haven't changed anything. And it happens when I'm using different PC's, one running Windows 7, the other Windows 10, both with Firefox. Edited March 15, 2021 by John Seaman

I stay logged in on my Windows desktop pretty much indefinitely. On the ipad, however, I get thrown off regularly. Sometimes after several hours, sometimes it only takes some tens of minutes; I can't seem to recognize any pattern on the timings.

I think the site logs me out once a week or so. I also have to log in when I clean up the computer and trash all the malware and cookies.

Hmm. It hasn't logged me out today. Fingers crossed.

Never happened to me on iPhone or iPad.

 

It’s probably a coincidence but John, Dieter and Conrad have Show online status enabled whereas Sandy, Sanford and myself don’t.

Turned online status off - still got logged out on the ipad.

Apparently the reason I got logged off on the ipad was me using the incognito/private browser tabs of google chrome. Switching to the standard browser tab has me stayed logged on so far.

I avoid cookies as much as I can, but I have all cookies I can, purged on shut-down. I restart every day first thing on my desktop, but I do sometimes leave my laptops logged in, but asleep. Those, I try to restart every other day or so.

 

It's the cookies that 'preserve' your log-in info, isn't it?

It's the cookies that 'preserve' your log-in info, isn't it?

Most sites will log you out if you remove their cookies.

But there are other reasons for getting thrown off a site - many sites (think banks, for example) just use a timer and throw you out after a few minutes or so. Not sure whether or not that requires the setting of cookies though. I just cleaned out all my cookies (with the exception, of course, of those I choose to permanently keep) - and upon opening my browser again, photo.net has set a total of 17 cookies. Some are set to expire when the browsing session ends, others stay for day, weeks, months, or even years.

Cookies are a pain in the fundament.