" It's pretty obvious that the company has changed direction in a pretty significant way in the past couple of years," he said in a tweet. Koch said: "We will change this behavior that so all cookies are deleted and you will be signed out."Ĭhrome to Support Fingerprint Scans on Android, MacĬryptographer Matthew Green, who was among the vocal critics of Chrome 69, applauded Google for listening to the privacy concerns, though he says upcoming changes amount to "damage control" and not a real change to Google's more invasive privacy approach. Chrome 69 was modified to not delete Google's authentication cookies from the browser when you cleared the data, meaning Chrome logs you out of all your internet services except Google ones. Chrome 69, critics say, has a new menu that might prompt users to activate the sync feature by accident.Īnother change Google is making to Chrome is the way it clears browser data. Nevertheless, Koch said Google will update the Chrome interface to better indicate when the browser's sync feature is turned on. To activate it, you have to click your profile pic and hit sync. On Tuesday, Koch reiterated that Chrome's new login feature does not log you into sync. This lets you access your browser history across devices but also sends your data to Google's servers. Privacy advocates were concerned Google was trying to dupe users into turning on Chrome's sync feature. (You'll notice this when your account's profile pic appears in the right-hand corner of the browser.) Signing into a Google service via the browser will now automatically log you into Chrome as well. But the tech giant decided to change that in Chrome 69, which arrived earlier this month. Earlier versions of the browser let you log into a Google service, say Gmail, without logging into Chrome. The tweak was made to address a privacy uproar over the latest iteration of Google's browser, Chrome 69. "For users that disable this feature, signing into a Google website will not sign them into Chrome," Google Chrome product manager Zach Koch wrote in a blog post.
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