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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Apr 2016
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sabineb@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
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Type: Bug



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SyncDisabled - but search terms still show across devices?

Reported by amandawu...@gmail.com, Apr 5 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Through GPO (Win) and config profile (OSX), we set SyncDisabled to enable
2. Users can still sign in to Chrome (Win and OSX)
3. If I do a search on Mac or Win machine, I can see that search term on my Android phone right away (click on google search box and it shows history of recent searches).  I think this proves that data is still being sychronized with Google.

What is the expected behavior?
If sync is disabled, shouldn't browsing history be disabled and not show on my android phone?

Also, if I go here: https://www.google.com/settings/accounthistory/search I can see the google searches I did on my OSX and Win devices with 'sync disabled' turned on.

What went wrong?
It doesn't appear sync is actually disabled, or is there no way to turn off the sync of search terms when signed into Chrome?  SigninAllowed is deprecated so I'm not sure how else to stop this from happening.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 49.0.2623.87  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

What other data besides search terms is google getting with 'sync disabled' turned on?

Comment 1 by battre@chromium.org, Apr 11 2016

Cc: sabineb@chromium.org
Components: Privacy
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
If you set SyncDisabled by policy, Chrome is not syncing your history.

But if you are logged in to your default search engine (which is Google in your case), the search engine gets your queries and cookies - just like if you were using any other browser in which you submit a signed-in search. By default, Google stores the search history of signed-in users. You can configure this here: https://myaccount.google.com/privacy?pli=1#activitycontrols

I am closing this bug. Please let me know if I did not answer your question.

Regarding your final question ("What other data..."), you may be interested in the Chrome privacy whitepaper: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html
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