I intend to die on this hill.
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I do wish the mandatory login change to Chrome would get some more mainstream (tech) coverage.
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I’m also annoyed at the people who say “it’s just all your browsing data so what’s the big deal?” It’s my *browsing data* that’s exactly why it’s a big deal!!!
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There’s an entire class of browsing many folks will feel uncomfortable doing if their browser has a little icon in the window that says “Hi <User> I know this is you!” This is Human Behavior 101.
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And sure, I’m talking about porn. But honestly, that’s probably the least of it. Political opinions. Mental health websites. Abortion clinic websites. Who would think forced identification is a good thing?
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Replying to @matthew_d_green
Googlers’ perception spectrum has always hat a dropout in the human emotions range.
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The Google people I know who work on Chrome are all excellent folks. The fact that they view this login change as NBD indicates to me that they made a miscalculation (which hopefully they’ll address) or they were very successfully played by corporate management.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @Khoji
Beyond the technical discussion at hand, I do appreciate this perspective Matthew. The single most tiring part of being at Google is that so many people jump _immediately_ from "A decision occurred which I don't like or don't understand" to "Well obviously they're evil now."
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I reserve the right to mistrust Google upper management. But the regular Google employees are generally great people. When it comes to decisions that affect privacy or security, we outsiders can give them leverage with management by having a huge and well-earned freak out.
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If you distrust Google for privacy, don't you use separate profiles for GMail and the rest of web even before this change? This is what I do. In such a mode there is no impact from this change. Signed in and sync status is per profile and it is easy to have separate ones.
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If you distrust Google for privacy and you use Chrome and GMail, there's a strong case that you don't distrust Google for privacy.
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Also myself sir, when using GMail with Thunderbird.oops.
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