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Comment by rdiddly | Hacker News Reader

I wonder if this is a reaction to Chromium-based Edge overtaking Internet Exploder as the most popular Microsoft browser.

Edit: I guess maybe not.

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Pretty sure Chromium based edge does not sync to google

> The reasoning given for this change? Google does not want users to be able to "access their personal Chrome Sync data (such as bookmarks) ... with a non-Google, Chromium-based browser.

I actually use this for having one google profile running in two browsers on one computer (one with a proxy, one without).

Sucks quite a bit as this is the primary sync system for Chromium. You can run your own but that is not quite that nice.

Instead of running Chrome and Chromium, try Chrome and Chrome Beta (or Dev/Nightly)? You can run the same profile in both and have two instances open.

Thanks for the tip, worked like a charm. I was worried that the icons would be the same, but they are not, so it is same user experience basically.

Didn't Microsoft replace all Google APIs with its own alternatives? This change probably will have bigger impact for other browsers built on Chromium, like Brave, Opera, Vivaldi etc.

Pretty sure Opera, Vivaldi and Brave does not sync to google servers. The syncing to their servers will still work fine AFAIU.

Yeah as far as I know every major Chromium browser has their own system. Why would they want to use Google's system?

Chromium would have to safely store and manage user data on their servers, which is an additional cost.

Can't speak for the others, but Brave uses it's own sync system and is not affected by this.

Vivaldi syncs with their own servers, and it syncs a lot more data - such as notes - like in the Opera 12.x days.

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