You don't have to sign into browsers. You don't even need an apple ID, I use a local account on my macbook.
It's not the happy path though. We need a tech a company that prioritizes local-first designs.
It's not the happy path though. We need a tech a company that prioritizes local-first designs.
Firefox does not, but it sure prompts the hell out of you to do so.
Also, chromebooks require such a sign-in as well, and I'll bet they enable that syncing by default as well.
Singling out Apple here is kinda silly when they're encrypted (if you don't trust Apple to tell the truth there, running their OS at all is risky), and when the behavior is that which we'd expect.
And at the end of the day, using Apple's password manager is mostly (exceptions including wifi passwords) optional.
The blog post is about how it was off and then got silently toggled on.
> Singling out Apple here
I'm not a journalist covering tech companies. I'm an Apple user complaining about something that happened on my own Apple devices. It's silly to characterize that as "singling out Apple".
I do use Chrome, though, and it never silently switched that toggle back on. If it did, I'd definitely blog about that.