{"id":204785,"date":"2025-01-29T03:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/google-to-kill-chrome-sync-on-older-chrome-browser-versions"},"modified":"2025-01-29T03:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:12:38","slug":"google-to-kill-chrome-sync-on-older-chrome-browser-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/google-to-kill-chrome-sync-on-older-chrome-browser-versions","title":{"rendered":"Google to kill Chrome Sync on older Chrome browser versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-to-kill-chrome-sync-on-older-chrome-browser-versions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google announced that the Chrome Sync feature will be discontinued in early 2025 for Chrome versions older than four years.<\/p>\n<p>When enabled, Chrome Sync keeps users\u2019 bookmarks, passwords, history, open tabs, settings, preferences, and, sometimes, Google Pay payment information. It also automatically signs users into Gmail, YouTube, Search, and other Google services.<\/p>\n<p>The move was announced on the company\u2019s community website over the weekend via a locked post that doesn\u2019t accept replies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google announced that the Chrome Sync feature will be discontinued in early 2025 for Chrome versions older than four years. When enabled, Chrome Sync keeps users\u2019 bookmarks, passwords, history, open tabs, settings, preferences, and, sometimes, Google Pay payment information. It also automatically signs users into Gmail, YouTube, Search, and other Google services. The move was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}