Huh? When you click the big "disconnect your google account" button in settings, it explicitly says you won't lose anything stored locally (including browser history and saved passwords), and you get a host of checkboxes allowing you to decide what to connect with your google account (including nothing), as well as an option to use a passphrase that encrypts everything locally before leaving your machine, ensuring that google couldn't read it even if it tried. Honestly I can't understand how you reached any of the conclusions in your post -- they simply aren't true.
There are plenty of things to complain about with how google in "unifying" their accounts, but Chrome sync isn't one of them. The only thing I'd want them to add is the ability to sync to your own sync server like Firefox (essentially no does it, but the option is important), but encrypting everything locally is equivalent enough for me.
There are plenty of things to complain about with how google in "unifying" their accounts, but Chrome sync isn't one of them. The only thing I'd want them to add is the ability to sync to your own sync server like Firefox (essentially no does it, but the option is important), but encrypting everything locally is equivalent enough for me.