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If I visit https://browserleaks.com/social using the Tor Browser, I am shown as somehow logged into Flickr. I don't even have a Flickr account.

In addition to the above, visiting the same site on a Google Chrome browser on the same computer shows me the exact same thing - logged into Flickr.

What could be the cause of this? Grateful for answers!

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Looks like their script is broken.

It's trying to detect if you're signed in by checking if the login page redirects you to a favicon.ico file and flickr.com is redirecting anyway.

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    }, {
        domain: "https://www.flickr.com",
        redirect: "/signin/yahoo/?redir=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com/favicon.ico",
        name: "Flickr"
    }, {
...

If you visit https://www.flickr.com/signin/yahoo/?redir=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com/favicon.ico it will redirect you to /favicon.ico

So their website is failing to detect it correctly.

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  • Yes, testing this out further seems to suggest that the issue is indeed what you suggest. Thanks.
    – user21063
    Feb 17, 2018 at 14:06

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