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Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by niftich »

For those interested in source code, one can review Chromium's implementation of this feature in chrome_signin_helper [1], dice_response_handler [2], and adjacent source files in the /chrome/browser/signin/ folder [3], as well as the files in the /components/signin/core/browser/ folder [4]. To my eyes, it seems an API call is made from the browser to Google to obtain the signed-in state.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/... [2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/... [3] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/... [4] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by i2shar »

>> Keep the feedback coming.

Don't conflate Chrome sign in with any web page sign in - not even Google's own. Call that web page neutrality.

Also, I wonder if it will allow signing in with one account and syncing to another as it used to before the current mess. My use case: Keep myself signed in to G Suite Apps (Gmail, Drive, Docs, etc.) with my work address, but sync my bookmarks, extensions and settings to my personal address.

If not, the changes they announced don't help me.

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by dlubarov »

_wmd wrote: post #15
sneak wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The noise was a distraction; the noisy were complaining about sync, which the change did not enable without an additional consent, as always.

I set up Chrome remote desktop for a family member today, and absolutely sync is enabled simply by signing in. Sure, it presents "Undo" after the fact, but on visiting the associated Google account, it had already copied everything. I have NFC where this article sourced "sync isn't automatic", but it clearly is. Zero UI indicator it's happening until the Undo button appears, by which time you've already been ripped o…

I haven't used Chrome Remote Desktop recently. What exactly were you doing when sync turned on?

I've been using Gmail without signing into Chrome. Post-update, I am signed in, but sync is still off.

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by djanogo »

allthecybers wrote: post #95

Too late. I am already done with Google as I was done with Facebook a few years ago. There seems to be no end to the privacy issues and user exploitation that crops up. If it isn't one thing it is another. These marketing / ad tech companies masquerading as consumer products will inevitably drift toward more invasion of privacy and user exploitation.

I agree, more people need to not accept these type pseudo apologies which provide a toggle to turn it off after the fact, they damn well know that 99% of people won't turn it off. And they are doing this on billions of devices.

Don't every freaking website have "Keep Me Signed In" (Don't use this on shared computer) message for decades already?

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by danShumway »

School-Cotton wrote: post #76
danShumway wrote: post #30

Unfortunately, Chrome 70 is also when `www` subdomain is slated to get re-hidden, and when web audio breaking changes are slated to get re-introduced. There's just too much to keep up with at this point. I'm happy about this change, it's a big move in the right direction. But it doesn't give me any confidence for the future. It's crazy that users have to do this every single release. It can't continue like this. I ha…

A Google representative has claimed on the domain hiding bug report that the change is shelved due to the feedback. Edit: Permalink to the relevant comment: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=883038...

Has it been shelved from Chrome 70?

The last that I heard, it was temporarily removed in Chrome 69, and `www` would be reintroduced in 70. Unless things have changed again since then, `m` was the only change that was actually shelved.

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by fermienrico »

romed wrote: post #108
fermienrico wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know why but I get an intense feeling of disgust at “people at higher position” making stupid decisions like this one. My cynicism kicks in and I feel like they know exactly what they’re doing, but the bottom line is more important than anything including causing a PR storm on HN and tech blogs. Strip down emperor’s clothes and truly reveal the nature of big corporations and their greed to ruin everything for…

In my experience at Google, "people at higher positions" do not really make these kinds of decisions. Someone at the leafmost position in the organization comes up with some research and recommendations and if nobody stops them, they go ahead and do it. It's actually really disorganized.

I feel like integrating auto sign in, tracking and Google cookies is less of a disorganized decision and more of a premeditated, carefully snuck in effort for their ads business. All the stars align for the bottom line.

Just look at the state of Android. Try being a cell phone OEM who wants to use Android but without Google integration. Impossible.

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by muizelaar »

ericabiz wrote: post #55
muizelaar wrote: post #46

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Neither of those bugs have to do with 100% CPU on rMBP. Their about using an inefficient presentation path which increases GPU power usage. You can mitigate this today by setting gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true. Further, Firefox Beta has additional texture upload performance improvements that will reduce cpu usage. If you're actually experiencing 100% cpu usage, post a profile using https://perf-html.io/ and…

Steps to reproduce: 1) Pick a rMBP. Any one. 2) Set display options - "more space" under System Preferences. 3) Run Firefox. Load any website. No extensions; safe mode doesn't matter. 4) 100%+ CPU, fans kick up and run high, system gets hot and slows to a crawl. Chrome and Safari run totally fine under the same conditions. It's documented pretty thoroughly in the first Bugzilla link I posted; the second one is an off…

1) I'm running a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

2) My display options are set to "more space"

3) I loaded this hackernews thread.

4) Firefox and it's child processes are using If I aggressively scroll this page I can push the cpu usage up. We have a variety of fixes in the pipeline that will help with this (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265824). That being said, only 4.7% of our users are on MacOS so it's more difficult to justify prioritizing work specific to that platform.

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by sooheon »

fermienrico wrote: post #110
spectrum1234 wrote: post #104

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I generally agree. However without ads, how do you expect poor people to have (free) access to radio, magazines (well, cheaper), antenna tv?

At this rate, the poor are better off without tv, radio and magazines. They’re largely just an entry portal into psychological extortion by these advertising firms. I’m a huge fan of publicly funded media such as NPR and your local public radio station.

I'm also a fan of patronizing the media you enjoy. Content makers having a direct relationship with their consumers.

Re: Product Updates Based on Your Feedback

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Post by muizelaar »

ericabiz wrote: post #102
mycelium wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent a few minutes trying to replicate on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013) with Firefox 62.0.2 and could not replicate, browsing a number of resource intense sites.

Interesting, as this is the same MBP I have, and same Firefox version. I now have a perf file showing the issue. Can't upload it (it gives an error), but would be happy to send it to anyone who thinks they can help.

You can send it to me at jrmuizel@mozilla.com
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