It's dependant on cookies. If whatever you checked that on deletes its cookies it can't remember the "device". The wording is all wrong but I guess they have to do that because plebs don't know that this is running in a browser.

So it's not just me. Various things in my life so this. I thought i was going nuts.

that means that you have strong tracking and fingerprinting protections. That's a feat, not an issue.

YSK that most of these have an expiration date (and should have an expiration date). Checking the box says trust this device that I'm currently using, for a while, thus:

• if you use another device to log in (e.g. switch from mobile to desktop browser), you will need to do it again, because security is tied to your ownership of the device, and
• if you continue to use the same device for more than--usually--a month, you'll be asked again because there's a possibility your device got stolen or compromised in the meantime.

In short, most of the time you'll have to do this once a month, or more if you're using more than one device, and that's nominally to protect you.

However, yes, a significant portion of these are just implemented by dummies, and don't work.

The particularly annoying ones for me are the ones on bill pay sites. If they work for a month, that doesn't help me. I only pay my bills once a month.

To tick you off? 🤷

Y'all this happens if the Icloud private relay is on.

I think this is like that “close door” button in the elevator and the pedestrian “press for crosswalk” button. It doesn’t do shit.

One of my work systems is like this. What’s even better is that not only does it log you out randomly, it also doesn’t reload the screen so you don’t know you’re logged out until you try to use it.

Every single month with my mortgage provider. Drives me nuts to be so mildly inconvenienced