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Why does Lemmy randomly log me out, but only on one computer?

I sign into my account from home and work, with both machines running the same version of Linux and Firefox. My computer at home has never signed me out, but at work I get signed out randomly during the day at least once a week.

So with my office computer, it’s been five days since I last used it. I have been reloading Lemmy for the last four hours without any trouble, but just now while I was looking through communities, it decided that I needed to log in again. And this has been the case for some time, I don’t get signed out due to inactivity, but rather it always signs me out while I am actively browsing. Usually I notice this either when I try to comment on a post, or when I get back to the home page and notice a bunch of content not in my usual feed.

Hopefully someone can make some sense of this for me, including why it only happens on one desktop?

horsey ,

I get this all the time in the browser mobile interface, on different instances. Often I click on a link, go back, and am signed out. It can happen multiple times a day. Oddly sometimes voting still works, but the UI shows me as signed out and functions like I am.

Shdwdrgn OP ,

Yeah mobile tends to do weird things, but this is on a full desktop.

Nemo ,

Your work computer is automatically deleting cookies every few days.

Shdwdrgn OP ,

Hmm it’s an interesting thought, but certainly nothing I know I installed. I thought maybe the duckduckgo privacy manager plugin might be a culprit, but I’m not finding any settings to auto-clean cookies. Checking my cookies, I have some going back 8 months (the last time I did actually clean them up) for sites I haven’t visited since then, so I’m not sure why only the cookies from Lemmy would be getting erased?

JoBo ,

I got this all the time when I had cookies blocked. Happens very rarely now that I allow them for Lemmy. It’s probably down to security settings on your work computer.

Shdwdrgn OP ,

This is a machine I loaded up myself, there’s nothing on it that I didn’t install. Firefox has an option to block tracking cookies, but that’s just set to the default “standard”.

teawrecks ,

It’s possible your external IP changes (because of how your IT routes packets leaving the VPN), and your Lemmy instance determines that’s suspicious (ex. if someone stole your cookies) and invalidates the session.

You might try going to a whatsmyip type website throught the day and see if it changes around the time you get logged out.

I feel like it’s a bit of a shot in the dark, but something worth checking for.

Shdwdrgn OP ,

Thanks for the suggestion, but nope. Both my home and work computers have static IPs assigned to them. If anything, my home address is subject to change because I have two ISPs for redundancy, so my desktop will switch between those through the day. My office computer has had the same IP assigned for the past decade, and my home network has had the same blocks assigned for about 6-7 years now.

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