Mick wrote: > On Saturday 01 Aug 2015 05:08:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> Am 31.07.2015 um 11:31 schrieb Mick: >>> I used Firefox to login to Gmail and suddenly received a message from >>> Google, advising me: >>> >>> "New sign-in from Firefox on Linux >>> >>> Hi Michael,Your Google Account xxxxx was just used to sign in from >>> Firefox on Linux." >>> >>> Have you noticed something similar and should we be changing anything on >>> the new FF configuration, or is this Gmail getting smarter? >> >> seriously? Have you never heard that browsers send tons of data to the >> server? Like browser version, OS, language... ? >> >> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) KHTML/4.14.10 (like Gecko) Konqueror/4.14 >> >> that is, for example what MY konqueror setup currently sends. > > Thanks Volker, I know that browsers send agent data to the server, but I had > never received such an email from Gmail before. Most that had happened in the > past is to receive an email to confirm I am the real owner of the account when > I tried to connect using IMAP4 while overseas. So this tells me that Google > are also logging the IP addresses I am connecting from and check my geographic > location for <aheam!> security purposes. >
Facebook does this too. I was testing tor once and it had me showing as coming from Africa somewhere. Anyway, it wouldn't let me in even with my password. After I disabled tor so that it would show my real location, I had a warning that someone had tried to login from a foreign country. It wanted me to change my password etc etc etc. Google isn't the only one that does this. I suspect that most all sites do this to some extent. After all, how can you visit a website and it not know your IP address and such? It has to know where to send your requests too. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
