With G Cookies also deleted, I may wonder "Why is my picture in the top right but no Google services are using it??". To us, it's clear that chrome sign-in is different from google sign-in, but to others, it may not be.
The logical thing to do, if your real aim is to have browser sign in state reflect cookie state, is to sign out the browser when someone clears their cookies.
That would make total sense to users.
I think this is clear evidence that Google made this change to keep more users signed into Google so they can collect more of your data without telling you.
Problem solved?
I could be mistaken, however, so I'm curious - what data does Google collect without telling the user, at least by making that data collection transparent?
That’s why people are complaining - they see that google clearly wants to privilege their own sites and logins in chrome and push the users to always be signed in with google across any site. Great for google, bad for user privacy and the open web.
What happened to their very vocal concern over net neutrality from last year?
I highly doubt the common person knows what a cookie is, let alone how to clear them.
A simple solution would be to add an extra step when clearing cookies that asks if you would like to stay signed into your Google session and clear or keep those cookies based on your selection.
But the fact that they are different things is precisely the reason why they should remain separate, not conflated into one soggy, confusing mess.