Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by fomojola » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 5:05 AM UTC

Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
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Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by bigiain » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 5:39 AM UTC

While it's interesting to see ways to inhibit Chrome's new behaviour, getting into a privacy fight with your browser supplier seems to be a losing strategy...

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by MihailBurduja » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 9:57 AM UTC

Get over it

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by ashleyn » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 10:34 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #2

While it's interesting to see ways to inhibit Chrome's new behaviour, getting into a privacy fight with your browser supplier seems to be a losing strategy...

Yes, it's only a matter of time until Chrome removes this flag, just like they removed developer support for disabling the autofill in web forms.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by mikl » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:06 AM UTC

Great, another creepy thing in Chrome we have to disable. Like Google Software Update wasn't already annoying enough.

If I wasn't a web developer, and needed to use Chrome for testing, I'd have uninstalled that creepy quasi-spyware long ago.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by Sistrixirri » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:09 AM UTC

Well, Google is being Google once again.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:28 AM UTC

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Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by kipdotcom » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 12:08 PM UTC

To disable this feature (at least for chrome 69, not sure if it will change), go to account-consistency: chrome://flags/#account-consistency and select disable.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by prdonahue » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 12:10 PM UTC

kipdotcom wrote: post #8

To disable this feature (at least for chrome 69, not sure if it will change), go to account-consistency: chrome://flags/#account-consistency and select disable.

This no longer works in Chrome Canary (71).

EDIT: to be clear you can configure the setting, but it's not respected anymore.

Former Chrome engineer confirming my report here: https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1043861647247515649.

Re: Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

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Post by h2onock » Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 12:15 PM UTC

I don’t understand why people are complaining about this. If you’re concerned about privacy then why would you even use a Google product in the first place? There are other options.