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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by signal11 on Monday September 24, 2018 @08:22PM (#18062621)
@__apf__ is being slightly disingenuous when she says "Not much ... like a Gmail login state indicator." Google logins are used across the web by a lot of sites. For instance here's what happens when you visit an Indian financial paper, the Economic Times, using Chrome 69: https://imgur.com/a/nFvxI0U (some personal info has been blurred out).

I almost never visit the Economic Times, and I certainly never log in, but now it gets a chance to log me in using my 'real' identity, and there's even a popup to nudge me in that direction. Any site that implements Google Logins can do this, as far as I can tell. I'm pretty sure most people who chose to enable browser sync in Chrome didn't opt for this.

I think the Chrome team really screwed up on this by not considering how Google IDs are used across the web. And for what? The rather marginal scenario of eliminating confusion in shared-browser situations?

Or they knew the full implications and did it anyway, which is even more disturbing.

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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by grey-area on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:38AM (#18063860)
It all makes sense if the end goal is for the browser to push google login across the web, and make google accounts the preferred way to log in to websites. In that case they're doing you a favour, it's all in your best interests, as well as Google's of course. [/sarcasm]

I simply don't trust a single corporation that much.

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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by torstenvl on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:17AM (#18064021)
They are not doing me a favor. Software companies need to stop believing their own paternalistic propaganda. Nobody at Google is in a position to determine whether they are doing me a favor or not.
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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by grey-area on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:38AM (#18064110)
It was sarcasm, this is how the google workers rationalise this to themselves (see other posts on this thread).
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Re:Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of ... by torstenvl on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:15AM (#18066444)
Sorry, my mistake.
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