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How is it not unexpected that a piece of software uploads and saves everything you search for on a remote corporate server? When did this become so commonplace that users don't even blink an eye to it? And more importantly, why would anyone find this acceptable?

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That's what the feature says it does! When you create a new Chrome profile and it asks you to sign it, it says "Sign in to Chrome with your Google Account to get your bookmarks, history, passwords, and other settings on all your devices." That's a valuable feature to many people including myself.

Yeah it's a widely advertised feature and you can obviously pull up tabs from one Chrome on one computer onto Chrome from another computer. There's no other way for this to work and it's actually useful. There's nothing underhanded going on here, except perhaps if (when) they sell the data to other parties.

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