Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser

Re:Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to t... by PurpleFoxy on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:32PM (#26201252)

Honestly for the average user it makes perfect sense. They said that they found the average user did not understand the difference between logging out of chrome and logging out of google so they would accidentally leave one logged in.

If you don’t trust google with your data then you shouldn’t use chrome at all.

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Re:Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to t... by mrgreenfur on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:13AM (#26204204)

I wonder id these layers of logins and fallbacks are the initial intention to improve user tracking. Does chrome os login serve as another layer?

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Re:Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to t... by 177tcca on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:22PM (#26207583)

100%.

That's one of the biggest complaints about ChromeOS, despite its excellent security paradigm compared to standard desktop setups: the user auth/activity pings it sends Google.

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Re:Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to t... by d1zzy on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:06PM (#26228919)

Is there something like Chromium but for ChromeOS? I wouldn't worry about Google pings with Chromium (I mean, if they are, they are in the source code and can be ripped out) so it should work similarly for community ChromeOS builds.

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