<human>: Today at work, I downloaded google chrome on my work computer. Everytime you install google chrome, the first thing that comes up is that it asks you to sign into google on the chrome browser. Normally, I skip it because I know exactly what it'll do if I sign-in. However, I was rushing to get something from my gmail, so I slipped and signed into google chrome thinking that I was only signing into my gmail. You can imagine what happened next. Google chrome started synching everything from my computer computer including history, bookmarks, and...tabs.

I had left a few tabs opened at home. Every single one of them synced and opened on my work computer.

So, you're all probably thinking that why I don't turn off synching. The thing is that I don't mind when chrome syncs between my devices at home, from my tablet to my computer. So, I allow chrome to sync at home.

I can change the sync settings for the work computer, however, you can't actually change the settings **until** you've signed-in to google on chrome. Once you sign-in, there's no stopping it from synching, and you're not fast enough to go change the settings to stop it from synching. By the time you go into the settings to change what to sync, it's already finished syncing.

The other thing I realized is that if you are signed into gmail (not signed into google chrome), on any browsers, including incognito mode (or safe-mode on other browsers), google will keep a history of all your searches. That means that if you're ever signed into your gmail from any computer, any thing from your search history will show up as "recent searches". That means that if you type in the first letter of anything in your search history, it'll show up as your recent searches or recommended searches. Fortunately, you can stop google from retaining a search history. Unfortunately, that will stop all of your android apps from retaining their own discrete search history, including Google Maps. So, it's all or nothing. Either retain search history for all of your apps, or none at all.

Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: google synced a lot of shit from my home computer to my work computer including stuff I didn't want it to sync.