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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by jasonvorhe on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:15AM (#18977818)
Chrome doesn't log you in automatically, it just shows your Google account in Chrome if you've already logged in to your account. There's no sync happening.
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Re:Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable u... by AlexandrB on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:47AM (#18978029)
When a company tells me where it's going by increasingly "encouraging" certain behaviours as their product matures I take them at their word.

Profiles went from optional, to on-by-default but could be disabled via chrome://flags, to on-by-default but could be disabled via command line arg, to cannot be disabled, to logged in by default but not syncing. Where this progression is going and what it's trying to promote is not rocket science.

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