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Counter-anecdote. I cannot even remember the last time I was asked to log into Github, at the office, at home, on my laptop, and even on my phone.

Do you perhaps have a browser setting that nukes cookies/session data by any chance? Or perhaps use a VPN that might be tripping some sort of account protection mechanism?



Counter-counter, I share his experience as well and don't have any of those things. Just bog standard Chrome with no extensions.

What I do have, and I expect is relevant: frequent ~weeklong gaps where I don't access GitHub at all in this browser profile. I assume there's some medium-lived token that's refreshed when you access the site.


My experience is similar to yours, though I seem to have to login every other week or so it feels like (maybe it’s once a month I don’t know).

This feeling could also be exasperated though since while I only use a personal GitHub account, I access it frequently from the browser and app on numerous devices.

I can definitively say though that I need to login more than twice a year on any one device.




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