Oh! I see! I misunderstood your first tweet to be Chrome required you to log into a google account, the way Android does.
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Replying to @quinnnorton @matthew_d_green and
Is this a new behavior or just sufacing an old behavior?
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It’s a new behavior AFAIK. It seems to me like they’ve adopted this as a softer version of mandatory login, in the expectation that most Chrome users use Google accounts at least occasionally.
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @quinnnorton and
In this case even one Google login, maybe by a friend borrowing your laptop, will leave Chrome indefinitely in a logged in state, I think.
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Once you log out of Gmail, the browser logs out.
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Replying to @__apf__ @matthew_d_green and
One of the things I've appreciated about Chrome is that the team limits the special casing that's done for G sites. Often a driving use case, but they keep their eyes on the whole web. This is the first case AFAIK of explicitly handling G differently. Dangerous line to cross.
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adrienne, is there a chrome://flags setting that can be used to turn this behavior off?
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thanks. unless i'm missing something, this no longer is respected in chrome canary (71). i've set as shown, cleared all data and restarted browser, but as soon as i login to gmail i immediately see that easy/lower friction "sync as patrick" button in chrome://settings.pic.twitter.com/WzitZStRZO
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Replying to @prdonahue @ericlaw and
@__apf__@laparisa if this is a UX decision alone, is it fair to assume the flag will be fixed in the next Canary? If it persists into Dev, it may in-scope Chrome Enterprise for review at firms which restrict whether or not their employees can share browser history.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
It's unclear to me that the Account-consistency flag is the right approach for addressing such a scenario. If you're an Enterprise that doesn't want Sync, then the right way to block that is with the policy that blocks Sync.
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Replying to @ericlaw @prdonahue and
Clarifying: not concerned about the flag itself; rather, whether the break is permanent & implications for whether it's is a strategic decision v. UX. If strategic, vendor evals Should extrapolate when gauging trust. E.g. "RestrictSigninToPattern" may later mandate google accts
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