Mac triage: marking assigned to ewald@ to assess this use case.

 Issue 882243  has been merged into this issue.

Hi there!

Thank you for the feedback. You can read a more detailed description for the motivation behind this design here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=882243#c5.

sab@ - I'm re-assigning this feature request to you to consider for future identity work. We made a conscious design decision to force consistency between the sync account and the default content area account when we built this feature, but I think it's worth re-evaluating this decision taking into consideration our future plans in this space. I'll defer to you on whether this is a use case want to support moving forward as we work on other, related projects (e.g. Spaces).

 Issue 888335  has been merged into this issue.

Reiterating on my comment from https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=879887#c23:

I'm on 70.0.3538.45, Mojave with the flag #account-consistency DISABLED.

I have a case where I want to sync my Chrome data with account B but on google sites I want account A as the "default" account (i.e. authuser=0).

I first cleared all my cookies, logging out of all my accounts. I login with Account A through https://www.google.ca/. Then I login with Account B through https://www.google.ca/. Now, Account A should be Default, Account B is secondary (authuser=1). I setup my Chrome sync with Account B. I did this yesterday.

So today after opening Chrome, somehow my default account on Google sites (google.ca, gmail, etc.) changed to Account B. And Account A is authuser=1. My Chrome sync account is still Account B.

I don't want Chrome to change the order of my logged in accounts on Google sites.

This messes up the use case for having a one Google account for daily use (e.g. school/work account) and one for syncing Chrome data (e.g. personal account). Now every time I want to access Gmail, Google Maps, etc. I have to append "?authuser=1" because my default account changed without my permission.

@jeff why not have one chrome profile for each account?
I have one for work, one for personal, multiple for aws, one for FB , etc

To be honest I haven't explored using Profiles as I was comfortable with my existing Chrome setup. I have my passwords, bookmarks, extensions synced all under one Chrome account. Everything was fine before this whole account consistency change was introduced.

I would like to keep my accounts "inconsistent" and altering the #account-consistency flag to disabled in chrome 70.0.3538.67 worked just fine, however after upgrading to 70.0.3538.77 no matter what this flag is set to it is always consistent.  Using Win 10 pro x64.

Issue 881003 has been merged into this issue.

I have the same use case as @jeffrey, with a single account to sync history/password/settings via Chrome, and separate Google accounts logged into separate browsers.

Ultimately I would prefer if the Chrome sign-in account can be totally separate from the Google sites sign-in accounts. But, short of that, at least it'll be nice for the default account order not to be switched, per this issue.

+1, I had opened the same issue at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881003 

This change has broken my workflow, I now need to use incognito with my work account (or another profile). It's a big pain.

These auth changes are also causing issues on ChromeOS for me.  If the browser's primary account doesn't match the OS signin account, sync stops about every 2 days with an auth error.

A chrome://restart gets sync going again without logging out or rebooting.

Chrome on Chrome OS is not, however, switching primary and secondary accounts as it is on desktop.

Like others here this is still an issue for me as well. Would like a real solution as my needs mirror the other comments here and I think allowing for users to choose their default accounts would be helpful.