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Ask HN: Allow Chrome sign-in option – does it work for anyone?

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In Chrome 69 Google introduced a change that logs users into Chrome browser when they login to any Google service, such as Gmail. This created a huge backlash on HN and other forums. Google responded to this backlash by promising to include an opt-out option. The current version of Chrome does include this opt-out option. However, does it work? I turned off the "Allow sign-in option" and signed into Gmail, and Chrome signed me into the browser anyway.

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qwerty456127
Even Chrome 69 had an opt-out switch for this - chrome://flags/#account-consistency but it didn't seemingly change anything. Chrome has been updated at least 3 (probably more) times since then (I'm running 70.0.3538.110 now) yet nothing has visibly changed.

UPDATE: I've just stumbled upon https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/how-to-stop-chrome-from-automa... and found now there is a switch in the Chrome settings called "Allow Chrome sign-in" (foundable by searching), not tested it so far but hope it works.

qwerty456127
UPDATE: I've finally checked the "Allow Chrome sign-in" configuration switch and it seems working.
qwerty456127
UPDATE2: No, it seems it doesn't really work. It seemed (I'm not sure already) it I didn't got signed-in to Chrome when I used my Google account to sign-in to StackOverflow but as soon as I've signed-in to Gmail itself I've been immediately signed-in to Chrome.