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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by zimbatm on Monday July 18, 2016 @04:23AM (#12113820)
The line of thinking was that people are used to email+password (as oppose to what was before). I think that was the right move.

The system is still end-to-end encrypted, if you reset your password it will also reset the storage (by definition).

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by crottypeter on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:45AM (#12114076)
> reset the storage

Does that mean you lose your history when you change your password? Or just that you need to use the new password to access (old and new) data?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by Sylos on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:02AM (#12114127)
You lose the data that's stored on Mozilla's server, but since it's a synchronization service, you should have a complete local (unencrypted) copy which can then just be encrypted with the new key and re-uploaded to their server.
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