Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
by sneak on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:10PM
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Also, even those of us who care about privacy are not all outraged about this. I have been using Chrome Sync (with a clientside encryption passphrase) for years. It always surprised me that there were separate login states for gmail and the browser. This change saves me a step, and reduces user confusion too.
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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
by jonbronson on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:01PM
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Users who already sign into Chrome are not affected by this issue. But for people who do not already sign in, we have now been force-logged in without consent. That is the problem everyone is outraged about.
Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
by sneak on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:53PM
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But that logged in to Chrome does nothing unless you additionally consent to Sync, so why do you care?
Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
by beenBoutIT on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @03:15AM
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Exactly. This just streamlines the login process and cuts the number of times users enter their password in half.