There's a great way to disable this and many other user-hostile features by going to https://www.mozilla.org/ and downloading Firefox. Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.
Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
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#12So long and thanks for all the fish google
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#13There's a great way to disable this and many other user-hostile features by going to https://www.mozilla.org/ and downloading Firefox. Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.
While you're completely on the mark with this, I noticed that Google pulls the new Microsoft now that it has almost a quasi monopoly on the desktop: Most of the new, complex UIs by Google services (read: GCP Cloud Console, all of Google Marketing Platform) are slowing my Firefox to a grinding halt, often times even crashing the tab.
No problems in Chrome whatsoever. It's the only thing I'm using Chrome for these days and I can't help shake the same ugly feeling than when I was forced using Internet Explorer for government websites purely because of their ActiveX plugins back in the days.
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#14I suspect Google did this in preparation of Ledger more than any other.
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#15If they remove the flag, can you disable the service by black-holing an IP, URL, or DNS entry?
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#16There's a great way to disable this and many other user-hostile features by going to https://www.mozilla.org/ and downloading Firefox. Suddenly, you are no longer fighting your browser.
While you're completely on the mark with this, I noticed that Google pulls the new Microsoft now that it has almost a quasi monopoly on the desktop: Most of the new, complex UIs by Google services (read: GCP Cloud Console, all of Google Marketing Platform) are slowing my Firefox to a grinding halt, often times even crashing the tab. No problems in Chrome whatsoever. It's the only thing I'm using Chrome for these days…
I've noticed this also. Gmail or anything by Google within Firefox is painful. Very very painful.
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#17I 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.
Chrome has become the de facto standard browser. I regularly run into websites that don't work (or don't work well) in Firefox.
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#18I 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.
Because my employer forces me to use G Suite and some of the features of that (Meet) don't work well (or at all) in non-Chrome browsers.
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#19While 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.
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#20I was surprised and angered by the sudden appearance of this automatic sign-in and sync. Between the time that it was activated silently and when I disabled it, I have a nagging suspicion that Google hoovered up my browsing history, bookmarks, passwords, etc. in the guise of "sync". While I couldn't find any evidence, whatever little trust I had left in Chrome is now gone.