A stranger only needs to click on that Turn on Sync button to download all of your synced stuff locally. What if you actually forget to sign out of the web app altogether? Now that you are also signed in automatically at the browser level, that means your personal data is even in greater danger. Forcibly signing users into the browser seems like an imperfect solution to protect personal data on a shared desktop or device. The new implementation is supposed to help you stay secure in a shared environmentīut sorry, Google - no one’s going to buy that.
The portrait menu notifies you of the fact that you’ve logged into a Google Account on some tab and serves as a reminder to sign out of everything whenever you wish to close the browser. To sum up those tweets, the new implementation is supposed to help you stay secure in a shared environment. So why did Google implement this change in the first place? You need to click that big blue Turn on Sync button if you want to sync your data.Īn engineering manager on Chrome’s development team somewhat attempted to explain the whole thing in a meandering series of tweets. At least Google got that part correct, but the whole thing still doesn’t make sense. But even though Chrome signs you in forcibly, your data won’t start syncing locally unless you explicitly specify that. Well, the questions are many and provide ample cause for concern. Sign in to a Google web app, be it Gmail, Drive, or YouTube, and you are now also signed in at browser level automatically Why would you want to sign in to Chrome just because you wish to use any of the Google products? Isn’t that risky on shared devices? Wouldn’t that compromise your data by syncing everything locally? That sounds ridiculous and entirely unnecessary. You can view that upon clicking the newly implemented portrait icon next to the address bar. Sign in to a Google web app, be it Gmail, Drive, or YouTube, and you are now also signed in at browser level automatically. But it’s not just the aesthetics that changed. Starting with Chrome version 69, Google ushered a completely revamped user interface.
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