I have connected my Google accoun to iNat, but every time I go to log in via Google I have to approve the permissions. My google account is connected to my iNat account (in settings) and the same for iNat in my google settings.
Does this happen to everyone else or is there a way to permanently approve the permissions and just log in every time?
Thank to anybody who has any imput.
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Yes, I’ve had the same issue. I stopped using Google to log in because of it.
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I use google login but after logging in I modify the cookie expiration time to 1 year using Chrome Developer Tools so I don’t have to log in all the time. It would be easy for iNaturalist to fix this for everyone
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Yes, it’s something I’ve also had happen in Chrome, on both Windows & Mac.
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Unforutnately it’s not something we can really control.
In general I’d always reocmmend using a username/email plus password rather than rely on a third party to log in. There have been times Facebook (when we supported Facebook log in) was down and some people couldn’tt log in to their iNat account. With an in-browser password manager, a third party one (I use 1Password, for example), or an OS one (eg Apple Keychain) it’s pretty easy to log in with a password.
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Yup, very irritating. Mind you I tend not to log out very much… every time I log in I get two emails and a text from Google, warning me that iNat has access to stuff! Phone notifications: Swipe, swipe, swipe…
wouldnt you just need to add :expire_after => 1.month to https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/blob/main/config/initializers/session_store.rb ?
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I’d like to simplify my login process. It’s currently four or five clicks, because with each and every iNat login through a web browser, I am forced to click “Allow” to my gmail account, and then again “Allow” to my Google Photos.
Is it intended that I need to give this permission every time? It’s quite annoying.
I moved to this older topic and reopened since it seemed like the same issue.
Are u clearing ur Browsing data often?
Whenever, U clear your Browsing data (Cookies and Other site data), u’ll hv to approve Google Account login afresh. Not only this site but It will happen for other account viz YouTube Account also. That’s for ur Account Security perhaps. However, if it still happen when u hv not cleared ur browsing data, the reason may be different.
No, I am not clearing browsing data/cookies.
This should be fixed now. Let us know if it’s working better for you.
I want to thank a volunteer coder smaftul who fixed this!
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This is why I hate it when that is the default first suggestion that tech support people make. Especially since I have yet to see it work.
We as front-end users generally have no idea what goes on behind the scenes. Code that worked yesterday suddenly doesn’t today; does code spontaneously break? Does it wear out like the heating element in my coffee maker and eventually fail?
I’m not an engineer so I don’t know exactly what happened here, but in the case of iNat interacting with another service, like Google, if Google changes something on their end we might need to make a change on our end to make sure our code works with their updated code.
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