Chrome - GTFO

Fuggan

Fuggan

Fuggan

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Got a bit of a problem here wit Chrome and Google's desire to take over the whole internet.

I just booted up chrome and clicked on Gmail, to check my mail. I thought this was weird as I never have to sign in, my password is saved normally. Anyway, I logged in, the page refreshed and I got this "you are now signed in to chrome" message..

I also use Chrome at work and have a load of bookmarks saved in that PC that I use for work stuff, ALL f these are now on my home machine! They seem to have merged with all my bookmarks from my home machine and are now all in one big list.

Very annoying. No prompt, no nothing, it just did it. Is there anyway to undo/roll back this ****e? I've tried signing out but that just signs me out and doesn't revert any of the changes it made to my bookmarks bar. :mad::mad::mad:
 
I don't think there is much you can do unfortunately other than manually remove the ones you don't want. If it had time to sync the other way you'll probably find the same will happen when you next open Chrome at work.

There is an option in advanced sync settings to disable bookmark sync so you could turn that off and still sign in on both PCs with their own bookmarks... although it would probably be easier to organise them into work and home now and then let it sync across both PCs.
 
Hi Andshrew, thanks for that. I have deleted all my work ones from my home PC, will see what happens when I load up my work one tomorrow. Hopefully they're all there untouched. I've calmed down a bit now lol. I was mad!
 
Does Chrome Sync not allow you to choose what synchronised browser has priority and you can choose in which direction syncs go? On firebox I have told my home browser that it should replace all other synchronised browsers (work, smartphone) with the selected contents I have chosen.

In turn this also is pretty clever in that the history and stuff from other browsers track back to the sync server BUT do not replace the contents of my home browser, only amend to them. Bookmarks remain as is.
 
chrome syncs.

your bookmarks will be gone at work. I sign in at work with a diff account.

I was more worried about my personal usage coming up on my work PC :P
 
I really can't ever recall logging into Chrome at work, I log in to my personal email at work yes, does that automatically log me into Chrome?
 
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