• @Mane25
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    49 months ago

    As someone who’s not used Chrome for a while, what does it mean to be “signed into a regular widow”? Does it mean signed in to a Google account with cookies that can be seen by a regular browser tab, or is there some login process to the actual browser itself these days?

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      29 months ago

      Yeah, I got signed out when the new tracking updates went live, figured I’d just use incognito.

      But I couldn’t even open an incognito window, it kept bringing up a normal one and saying I had to sign in to use chrome.

      So I downloaded Firefox.

      • @Mane25
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        59 months ago

        Sign in to what though? That’s what I still don’t understand, I’ve never used a browser that had a mandatory account (except maybe AOL in the 90s but that wasn’t really a browser)…

        But of course, downloading Firefox is definitely the right choice. :)

        • ares35
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          29 months ago

          they are claiming that you have to be signed into chrome, the browser, in order to open an incognito window.

          yea, it sounds a little crazy. i don’t use chrome, so i can’t confirm that’s the case. i haven’t run into any articles claiming this either, just this post and one other elsewhere awhile back that does.

          • @Mane25
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            39 months ago

            OK then this is my culture shock because I’ve never “signed in” to a browser in my life. All I want to know is what are people signing in to?

          • jherazob
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            29 months ago

            Likely related to that lawsuit they’re dealing with