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Anyone else having this problem? I'll log out, browse other pages, come back to GOG and find I'm logged in again. Only happens sometimes, other times I stay logged out. Can't figure out a pattern.

I'm already logged in when the first page loads. There's no popup or anything. From what I can tell, I'm not storing login info anywhere or telling GOG to remember me. GOG support isn't aware of issues at their end. Using latest Firefox with multiple tabs open.
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Could be because some of the cookies. Try logging out, deleting cookies and active logins, and refreshing.
Are you still logged in on one of your open tabs?
Does it also do it when you logout and then quit out of Firefox entirely?
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Coelocanth: Are you still logged in on one of your open tabs?
Don't think so. But! I just found a way to trigger it consistently. Log out. Bring up GOG. Go to General Discussion. Click on a thread. So far it's still showing the generic logged out interface. Now refresh the browser. Suddenly I'm logged in.
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crazy_dave: Does it also do it when you logout and then quit out of Firefox entirely?
Just tested it. It doesn't happen at first. Once I log in and log out, following the steps I described will cause it.
Post edited October 31, 2011 by wvpr
yeah same here, apparently need to delete cookies so it wont "auto login" after shutting down the browser, didn't test with another browser but seems logout does not work entirely as it should, probably the logout script doesnt erase/flush cookies correctly or something (i'm not an expert with web sites so don't exatcly know what happens behind the scenes when one logs out from a web site in general).

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mmkay, seems the issue is not limited to firefox only, just tested with chrome and same thing (both browsers are updated to latest version).
Post edited October 31, 2011 by Maurizio84
Back button does it too, which isn't surprising.
tut tut, no candy for the gog team until they fix this trick...
update:

did a bit more experimenting and it seems to work on forums which you have favorited (the default forum sections you see on main community page), so for example refresh in any thread in general discussion and you get "backlogin", but when tried this in "Alien Nations" (i don't own this game so it isn't favorited by default) forums it didn't work until i marked it as favorite forum and logged out again.

also the refreshing backlogs in the five game forums it shows when you're not logged in regardless of if you have favorited them on your account or not (i think the five forums are showed based on where the latest posts have been made but that's just guessing).

anyways i'm off to bed and can't think of anything else on how i could troubleshoot more with this.
Post edited October 31, 2011 by Maurizio84
I was just wondering how I was logged into to this computer.
Tested this in Safari on OS X - involuntary login doesn't seem to happen there. I will try on Firefox.

Couldn't get this behavior in Firefox v.7.0.1 for OS X either. :/

Looks like I won't be of much help.
Post edited October 31, 2011 by crazy_dave
Try deleting all your cookies manually

I mean all cookies related to gog.com
Post edited November 01, 2011 by wahoyaho
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wahoyaho: Try deleting all your cookies manually

I mean all cookies related to gog.com
Mine get deleted when restarting browser, and restarting the browser fixes the problem until I log in again. So it's probably connected.
This same started to happen to me when I started using Win7 (IE), I don't recall seeing it in WinXP with Firefox. It could be the cookie flushing settings or something, like others have mentioned.

So basically, does this mean that if I log into GoG on some public computer, and later someone else decides to browse gog.com as well on the same computer, they will log in as me? Being able to download all my games to themselves for free, etc.?

Tut tut, GoG. I guess that is also why in the recent GoG survey I voted against GoG keeping my credit card information so that I don't need to enter the details in every purchase. I don't need anyone else purchasing GoG games for me, I know which games I like.

That said, frankly I don't use public computers for any activities where I log into webmail or any sites. I simply don't trust public computers, who knows what spying programs they could be running in the background. I rather fire up smart phone or laptop in the web cafe, and just pay for their WLAN connection.
Post edited November 01, 2011 by timppu
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timppu: So basically, does this mean that if I log into GoG on some public computer
tsk tsk, you should NEVER log to anything on a public computer.