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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by Ruud-v-A on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:22AM (#12581541)
In what sense? I’m using Chrome Beta on Android, and I don’t recall being prompted to log in. Perhaps there was such a prompt during initial setup, but it has never tried to log me in quietly since.
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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by _euvw on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:26AM (#12581584)
On a fresh Android, at first boot, it will ask you if you want to sync stuff. I always choose 'no'.

I then proceed onto the settings app, into 'accounts'. There, I tap 'Google' and lo and behold: App-data, Calendar, Contacts, Google Fit Data and People details are all ticked to sync.

I turn them off.

Then I open the default browser. It logs me into Google, by default. I have to explicitly tell it not to.

Google really really wants users to be logged in. That is my experience anyway.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by noir_lord on Thursday October 06, 2016 @02:30PM (#12654843)
And exactly mine, I flashes a ROM with pico Google apps, installed FF so chrome doesn't exist on my phone at all.
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