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Or what do you use them for? Isn't it now quite easy for websites to track outside of just cookies?

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[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it used to work with the account from the first university, and has probably been disallowed somewhere in the settings as a "safety feature".

I'm just thankful IT seems to be as fed up with Microsoft as I am, so hopefully some day they'll make the change to something else.