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by nothrabannosir 4124 days ago
One caveat to the cookie-to-password switch: I am very good at saying, "Tomorrow." "Yeah, yeah, I'll do that tomorrow." Tomorrow comes and goes, I or a friend clear my history, whoops! Session lost.

At that point I am easily discouraged enough to stop using it.

E.g.: this happened to me with Khan Academy. I had watched so many videos on that cookie-only session, by the time it disappeared I'd long forgotten which ones I'd seen. Feeling a little discouraged, I thought, Okay, I'll get back to Khan tomorrow. Tomorrow never came.

If more people are like that, that could be a good reason not to allow cookie-only sessions for too long.

Or am I the only one?