There's nothing wrong with not wanting your information streamed to your workplace, I wouldn't want that. I'm not 'guilty' of anything, but I also don't leave the curtains open and run around the house naked - some things are best to keep private.
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RE: Remember when Google said Chrome would be a standard web browser and not incorporate features that only benefit Google? Yeah they were lying.
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RE: Remember when Google said Chrome would be a standard web browser and not incorporate features that only benefit Google? Yeah they were lying.
Yeah I definitely agree. The "skip for now" looks like hyperlink text and isn't particularly prominent.
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RE: Remember when Google said Chrome would be a standard web browser and not incorporate features that only benefit Google? Yeah they were lying.
im just gonna go nuts with copy/pasting breaks so let's hope that works out. I support bitching of all forms, I'm just throwing ideas out (I don't usually follow up on all of my refferal info lol). My suggestion is that you start the Chromium bugs relevant to this stuff if they've been made and if they haven't been you should go ahead and make them. I wouldn't expect Google Chrome's browser not to come with Google stuff though - like I said, you should try Chromium. Or Firefox, whichever.
@blakeyrat said:
Yes. Which is why I want Chrome to stop naggnig me about it.
When does it nag? I sign in, so the only time I've had Chrome not signed in is in a VM for testing and I haven't seen it, but I'm assuming it's due to the short time.
@blakeyrat said:Yes but I have to be careful not to sign-in to Chrome because if I accidentally do, it'll suddenly sync my bookmarks and passwords and shit which are not something I want on the work network.
I guess I'm missing some kinda nag screen? I don't know how you could go to gmail.com and then accidentally hit the wrench button and then slip on the mouse pad sending you to the sign in page where you dropped your lunch and it hit the keys logging you into your gmail account.
I feel like there are a few steps involved here that would probably not let this work. I guess it really depends on what you're having for lunch.
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RE: Remember when Google said Chrome would be a standard web browser and not incorporate features that only benefit Google? Yeah they were lying.
@blakeyrat said:
Not to mention the "Blakeyrat-at-work" account has no purpose to exist anyway, since I don't use any Google services at work.
So, uh, why do you want multiple accounts then?I'm lost - it sounds like signing in isn't what you want. You could always just check your email from work via gmail.com, no?
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RE: Remember when Google said Chrome would be a standard web browser and not incorporate features that only benefit Google? Yeah they were lying.
dear god how do i format edit: god damn do you guys really type in
every time, anyways sorry for the shitty quoting/ breaking
"f course I'd gladly do this if Google pulled their heads out of their ass and finally admitted that, hey, maybe a single person has more than one identity! Maybe Blakeyrat-at-work is a different person than Blakeyrat-at-home! But no."
You should try the multiple profiles options. Chrome shouldn't ever nag you to log in once you say "not right now" or "skip this" or whatever it is on the log-in page.
It seems your issue is that:
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You don't want the notifications whitelist
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You don't want Chrome's default apps.
But this seems simple - chrome://extensions, disable/ uninstall the apps. This solves both issues.
Seems simple to me - all of this can be avoided by removing the apps. If you're now getting logged out of gmail that's a bug, not by design.
I can explain why these apps exist, since you think websites should not be apps. A website is given a specific set of permissions, dictated by CSP/SOP, and browser contexts. Apps allow specific web pages to increase their permissions, so to speak, giving them the ability to manage a specific website through more complex offline-management (among other things). It's why you can't have "offline gmail" or "offline docs" without the apps - it's not because they want you to use the app, it's because the choice is either:
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Give websites ridiculous privilege
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Give websites privilege through apps
I agree that these shouldn't be packaged by default. But Chrome is Google's product, so it's hardly surprising. Beyond that, I doubt Chromium comes with these installed. If you want a 'less-googly' Chrome, use Chromium, though you will be missing out on a number of features.
P.S. I got here through referrer info. Iron is shit, thanks for linking information about it above. Someone did do a 'diff' on the files of Iron 4 but the original post is deleted (that's why I don't include this info) and all they found was hardcoded privacy settings, no new code was added.
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