Privacy Scare! Chrome 69 Is Another Reason to Move to Firefox

With Google'southward services becoming leaders in their respective categories, in that location's a groovy fear that a lot of what we do online is dictated by Google. Google Search, Gmail, Chrome, Android and YouTube are just a few examples of how Google rules the internet and our devices. And unsurprisingly, at that place have been increasing concerns in recent times about Google's respect (or lack thereof) for user privacy, and the latest event will not make things any better.

Multiple posts on Hacker News seems to advise that the latest version of the Chrome i.e Chrome 69, fundamentally changes the sign in experience in some Google products and  services. Co-ordinate to user Ronilan, a new 'feature' in the latest version of Chrome links the browser inexorably to the user'south Gmail/Google account, so that if they are logged into one, they are immediately logged into the other. Logging off from your inbox likewise logs you off Chrome, and vice-versa.

It's worth noting here that Google isn't even asking users to opt-in for the new login organisation and instead, is automatically signing the browser into the users' Google account, making it not just terribly inconvenient, but as well a massive privacy risk, in case you use public computers that may take been compromised in some manner or the other.

Information technology isn't immediately articulate when this new change was introduced, but co-ordinate to the posts on HN, it seems to have started with Chrome 69, whose stable version was released earlier this month with what largely seemed to be cosmetic design changes at offset.

Withal, away from the glare of the mainstream tech printing, the change was being tested for moths as part of Chrome 69's alpha and beta builds. Several weeks ago, following complaints from alarmed users on Google's official forums, a Chrome representative confirmed that the automatic sign-in is the intended behavior. Google calls the characteristic "Identity consistency between browser and cookie jar", making it incommunicable for users to disassociate the ii.

The change has already angered enough of users – and rightfully then. Many are challenge that this was the proverbial terminal straw that will make them shift from Chrome to Firefox for good. Whether that happens or not notwithstanding remains to be seen, but Google will practice well to listen to the concerns of its users and make this an opt-in feature, or at the very to the lowest degree opt-out.

Source: https://beebom.com/google-links-gmail-chrome-login/

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