I think the simplest explanation, rather than all the Google developers suddenly decided to become evil, is that this is a really hard Balancing Act and they moved the notch in a good direction for lots of users but unintentionally in an undesired direction for others.
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What do you see as the benefit(s) for the many users? (Honest question)
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Replying to @johnwilander @nasko and
Frequently, closely related users (spouses, roommates, etc) will sign into Gmail or other services not realizing their SO is signed into the browser, and then their data may mix under one account because of sync. This eliminates that common confusion.
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But why does signing in to a web app sign you in to a browser? Isn’t that the problem, rather than people not *realizing* they did that?
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Replying to @johnwilander @0xMatt and
Ask people on the street what a browser is.
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Should we expect a Microsoft web app login to sign the user into Edge and an Edge sync signin to sign the user into all Microsoft web apps?
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Replying to @johnwilander @0xMatt and
Logging into Windows 10 with your MSA provides SSO for Edge and apps.
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When you say apps, do you mean web apps? I.e. you log in to Win10 with MSA and Microsoft auth cookies are injected into Edge?
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Are those cookies strict SameSite? Or do they include user identity when Microsoft is 3rd-party on other websites?
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Fascinating question, I haven't yet looked. Given that SameSite support is newish for Edge, may have an opportunity here.
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