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Not signing into the browser? Why or why not, we would love to better understand!
Hi All,
We are finishing the rollout of our new Microsoft Edge to our Windows 10 customers and would like to get additional feedback.
If you have chosen not to sign in to the browser, we'd li...
The same as when Google started signing people in: privacy and trust issues, combined with feature creep concerns.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
User consent matters. Regardless of the reasons for people not wanting to sign in to a browser, it should always remain the user's choice – and that choice should be explicit, opt-in, no tricking users or using dark patterns; and in the case of Google – not trying to justify their decision by down-playing user objections.
Some people obviously find value in signing in to the browser, however I am not one of those people and so for me personally it is not something I want to do.