> Yeah, I removed Chrome precisely because it kept re-adding its crap to the login sequence. It really drove home the notion that Google will not respect any boundary or privacy - your machine is their machine, your data is their data, and screw you if you don't agree.

Exactly this. Chrome was never my main browser, but though it's useful for testing web dev I just nuked it from the system once I realised it kept trying to find new ways around my deactivation and / or removal of keystone. That was several years back.