Chrome asks me to Sign in everytime I launch it fresh

[wyattbiker]

I have a Samsung S3. It wants me to sign in my email account when I launch Chrome. What does my email have to do with opening a browser? I am not even using browser based email. My home page is the a newspaper website. Any ideas?

 

[codesplice]

Is it prompting you to sign in with your Google account? Chrome has a built-in sync function so that you can synchronize your bookmarks/history between different devices. That could be what the login prompt is for?

 

[EarlyMon]

That and it also saves your browsing history (and they want that, too, ok) and preferences, and allows you easier access to Google+ via the mobile browser.

You can choose to not log in and everything still works.

 

[wyattbiker]

Ya it works fine. I just don't want the prompting. It's annoying. How do I stop it. -Thanks

 

[EarlyMon]

Ya it works fine. I just don't want the prompting. It's annoying. How do I stop it. -Thanks

To be honest, it kept bugging me and I never figured out how to shut it up - so I gave it my login.

And I mostly use Dolphin browser, no hassles.

But when I need to go to a G+ or Google groups page, I share it from Dolphin via Choose Browser to Chrome.

I'm sure it's not the answer you're looking for, and I don't pretend it's the best way if you really like Chrome, but it works for me, especially because I prefer Dolphin.

Wish I had a better answer.

 

[codesplice]

Just for giggles, I signed out of Chrome on Android and haven't been prompted to sign back in yet. From a few statements I found elsewhere, once you explicitly sign out (or otherwise tell it not to sign in rather than just skipping past it) Chrome shouldn't bother you about that again.

Granted, this is just based on roughly ten minutes of testing so I could be way off.

 

[electricpete]

It wants me to sign in my email account when I launch Chrome. What does my email have to do with opening a browser?

In addition to allowing bookmark sync, which is great (mentioned above), it allows to the browser to authenticate your identity to a wide variety of google services: google drive/sheets/docs, calendar, tasks, keep, search, youtube.com, and a few others. Also it allows the option to share selected info with 3rd parties when required, but it will prominently ask permission when that occurs.

In the end, there is a tradeoff of convenience vs security. I don't entrust my personal info to very many entities, but Google is one of the very few that I do trust to treat my personal info with proper security and this gives me a big payback in convenience of accessing a variety of integrated services in the "google ecosytem". That's my personal opinion. I realize others will have different opinions/approaches.