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Usually only the big tech companies and well-funded startups can afford to use device fingerprinting in addition with auth tokens. This essentially involves keeping track of the last time you logged in, your IP address, your device characteristics then notifying if there is an unusual change in any of those metrics.

For instance, although I have never been to China, I once got a notification from Facebook that someone attempted a password reset on my account from China. This was shortly after the publication of LinkedIn's stolen database of users which affected millions of users including my account.



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