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Not asked. You can close the browser, open it and access the account without any authentication. Simply speaking, persistent cookies are used unconditionally,
by avodonosov 4y ago
Not asked. You can close the browser, open it and access the account without any authentication.
Simply speaking, persistent cookies are used unconditionally, while in the past the unchecked "remember me" was setting session cookie instead.
The first screenshot (the one with user name already filled) is when you explicitly log out and then login again.
- happyopossum 4y agoYou have a every specific, and not very accurate set of assumptions about what a ‘remember me’ checkbox does (hint, it’s not always session extension - it’s often just remembering your login ID). Also, you are regularly asked to authenticate to google services, and presented with the screen shown. To pretend otherwise is just weird. You can complain about the default session length, but that’s a much more specific and different rant from the one in TFA. Also, do you really think the 99.8% of regular gmail and YouTube users want to log in to google every time they close their browser windows?