How to block the sync account of google chrome via GPO

Google Chrome is most commonly browser in the world, whether if it at home or in organizations, some claims that the reason google chrome is faster it is because google chrome is less secure than others one.

2 weeks ago I read an article which present survey that 68 % users are using in google chrome, I don’t know how much it is correct, but one thing I know that we have secure google chrome in our organization, one of the google chrome feature is to allows to users login with their personal account and sync the data from computer to computer, what means that if you or some user have open google chrome on his home and browsed on unsecured pages, those history,cookies will sync to his computer at work and it can some mess.

So this tutorial going to show you how to disable “SYNC” option using Group Policy.
You have to add google chrome ADM files, if you don’t have it or don’t know how to add them please follow to the URL: How to add ADMX or ADM file to Group Policy


Before Policy:

Open your Group Policy and navigate to:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Google > Google Chrome >

Enable “Disable Synchronization of data with Google“:

 After applying policy:

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