Nooooooooooodge
by Scott Hardie on November 3, 2006
You know what would be nice? If Google, one of the most web-savvy companies in existence, could manage to remember my goddamn user settings for more than 48 hours. I'm getting really sick of discovering them reset to defaults and having to change them all over again.
Three Replies to Nooooooooooodge
Kerry Odell | November 18, 2006
do you delete your cookies??
Scott Hardie | November 19, 2006
Never. I stay logged in to sites like IMDb and goo.tc for years at a time. Yahoo forces me to retype my password with every visit, but at least it remembers my username for years. For some reason, Google forgets my search preferences every 48 hours or so, and it drives me crazy. It's not in the "restricted sites" list in my browser, either, so that's not it.
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