It looks like the changes to Chrome are more about making the user aware of whether they've logged into Google rather than any change of login behavior. Firefox hides the "logged in" status, which occurs in firefox as it does in Chrome (with small technical differences).

Firefox's coming default behavior for tracker blocking is a better reason to choose Firefox. Today,  a typical user session results in the user being "logged in" to 50 or more sites, most of them ad trackers, only one of them "Google". The new tracker blocking in Firefox should cut that down significantly.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/08/30/changing-our-approach-to-anti-tracking/

Eric Hellman


> On Sep 24, 2018, at 7:48 PM, Sam Manderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings library colleagues,
> 
> I would like to propose the changes to Google Chrome make the use of the application in a Public PC environment unconscionable from a user privacy standpoint.
> https://www.wired.com/story/google-chrome-login-privacy/
> https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
> 
> Mozilla's 'Firefox' is a comparable web-browser which is in my view a good replacement, and the values of Mozilla more closely align with broader library values.
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sam Manderson
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