[Tip] Stop Google Chrome from Using Your Google Account to Automatic Sign into Browser

When Google Chrome version 69 was released, it came with a new feature called “Identity Consistency” or “Account Consistency“. This feature allowed Google Chrome to use your Google Account information to automatically sign into Chrome’s built-in local user account which is used to differentiate between multiple users and sync profile data.

Google Chrome comes with multiple user profile/account feature and you can create multiple user profiles so that different users can use Google Chrome differently. For example, you can create one user profile/account for your professional use and one for your personal use. You can use different Gmail IDs, Facebook IDs, etc in different user profiles. It’s a very useful feature.

But since the release of Google Chrome 69, whenever a user signed into a Google website such as Gmail, YouTube, Google+, etc, Google Chrome automatically signed the user into local user account present in Google Chrome using the same Google Account credentials.

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Many people don’t want to sign into Google Chrome’s local user account using their Google Account information but as soon as they sign into Gmail or other Google services, they were automatically signed into Chrome’s local user account. Same thing happened when a user signed into Chrome’s local user account using Gmail ID. The user was automatically logged into other Google services such as Gmail, etc in the browser.

So basically both online Google account and Chrome’s local user account were linked together. That’s what the use of new Identity Consistency feature.

Due to this feature, users were also unable to clear Google Account cookies using “Clear browsing data” window which can be accessed using Ctrl+Shift+Delete hotkey. It showed “You won’t be signed out of your Google Account” message and users were unable to sign out from their Google Accounts.

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It was a major security and privacy issue and many users complained about this feature.

Google immediately reacted to the users feedback and announced that they’ll provide a built-in option in Chrome Settings to turn off this new feature.

Now Google Chrome 70 version has been released which comes with a new option in Settings to disable this automatic sign-in feature. Now users can sign into Google websites and services without signing into Chrome’s local user account.

If you also want to disable this auto sign-in feature, following steps will help you:

1. Open Google Chrome, click on the 3-dots icon (main menu) present at the top-right corner of the window.

2. Now select “Settings” option from the main menu.

3. It’ll open Chrome settings page. Scroll down to bottom and click on “Advanced” option.

4. Under “Privacy and security” section, set the option “Allow Chrome sign-in” to OFF.

Google Chrome will show you a message “To apply your changes, relaunch Chrome“. Click on “Relaunch” button.

That’s it. After restarting Chrome, the automatic sign-in feature will be permanently disabled and Chrome will no longer sign into built-in browser user account using your Google Account credentials. You’ll also be able to clear all cookies including Google Account cookies using clear browsing data window.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If the new option “Allow Chrome Sign-in” is grayed out i.e. locked in your Google Chrome settings page, following tutorial will help you in fixing the issue:

[Fix] “Allow Chrome Sign-in” Option is Grayed Out (Locked) in Google Chrome Settings

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