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   Frank Slootweg to VanguardLH   
   Re: Text messages sort order   
   23 Jan 26 13:35:12   
   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   VanguardLH  wrote:   
   > Frank Slootweg  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Andy Burns  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> It probably does, if you allow persistent cookies, which I don't.   
   > >   
   > > AFAIK, it's a setting kept in your Google Account, i.e. similar to the   
   > > same setting for signing into the account without the need for   
   > > 2SV/2FA. Google Messages on the web can't work without being signed   
   > > into your Google Account, so this is just one more account setting,   
   > > not a cookie.   
   >   
   > When I went there, it demanded I pair their web app with the Messages   
   > app on my phone.  The web app for Messages doesn't get the texts.  They   
   > aren't operating or interfacing with your carrier's SMS server.  So,   
   > they link their web app to your Messages phone app to sync copies of the   
   > texts from phone app to web app.  Well, that's my interpretation of   
   > their process demanded when I first loaded their web app.   
      
     Yes, that's  how it works. But I don't see what that has to do with   
   the 'Remember this computer' setting to use persistent cookies (as Andy   
   suspects) and it being a (kept) setting in your Google Account (as I   
   said).   
      
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