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To be devil's advocate, if someone wants to clear all cookies and still be logged in to Google: it's like eating a cake and having a cake (well, cookie). In Chr

To be devil's advocate, if someone wants to clear all cookies and still be logged in to Google: it's like eating a cake and having a cake (well, cookie). In Chrome, being logged in to google.com and logged in to Chrome are tightly linked. (If you don't like that, don't use Chrome). (Of course Google could do the other thing and say "ok since you clear all cookies, we log you out of Chrome, so you lose sync etc." but it's probably _not_ what most people want, nor what Google wants).

oh_sigh 5y ago
Why can't google chrome just have a special login cookie? So you need to log in to chrome, but doing so doesn't mean you're logged into your google account.
- sneak 5y ago
  They used to be separate, but daddy G decided that having two separate login states for Google-the-browser and Google-the-website was too confusing for our widdle heads. Oh well. At least it makes it dead-simple for the advertising company to track your complete browsing history. PS: Install cookie autodelete, install uBlock origin, disable chrome login/sync entirely, and disable "enhanced" safe browsing. Block the google domains from loading globally on sites in uBlock. Also, and I cannot stress this enough: stop using gmail. It subjects not only yourself to total ad surveillance, but every single person you correspond with.
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lolinder 5y ago
This is why I use Firefox + Multi-Account Containers. Google and all its services I haven't yet been able to elimiate go in its own container. Google's cookies in all other containers are third-party and so get rejected.
jerrygoyal 5y ago
> someone wants to clear all cookies and still be logged in to Google: it's like eating a cake and having a cake (well, cookie) not sure if this argument is valid here because that third party cookies issue still happens in incognito mode where I'm not logged in to my Google account.

oh_sigh 5y ago

Why can't google chrome just have a special login cookie? So you need to log in to chrome, but doing so doesn't mean you're logged into your google account.

sneak 5y ago
They used to be separate, but daddy G decided that having two separate login states for Google-the-browser and Google-the-website was too confusing for our widdle heads. Oh well. At least it makes it dead-simple for the advertising company to track your complete browsing history. PS: Install cookie autodelete, install uBlock origin, disable chrome login/sync entirely, and disable "enhanced" safe browsing. Block the google domains from loading globally on sites in uBlock. Also, and I cannot stress this enough: stop using gmail. It subjects not only yourself to total ad surveillance, but every single person you correspond with.

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lolinder 5y ago

This is why I use Firefox + Multi-Account Containers. Google and all its services I haven't yet been able to elimiate go in its own container. Google's cookies in all other containers are third-party and so get rejected.

jerrygoyal 5y ago

> someone wants to clear all cookies and still be logged in to Google: it's like eating a cake and having a cake (well, cookie) not sure if this argument is valid here because that third party cookies issue still happens in incognito mode where I'm not logged in to my Google account.