Help!! Chrome and Facebook... Anyone had this happen ...

.. and can tell me what I have done/not done to cause it...

My wife has an Asus Tablet and uses Google Android. I have an Asus Xenbook using Win10 (on which I am typing this) My wife used this Notebook to check her messages today on Facebook Messenger as the battery on her tablet was low.
I have now noticed that all the websites I have visited from my Xenbook using Google Chrome (including individual pages from this BB bulletin board) are visible on my wife's browsing history on her tablet. How is she able to view MY browsing history from MY laptop on HER tablet when I was logged in to Windows in MY name on my Notebook and she was logged in in her name on HER tablet.

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This implies a direct link between Chrome and Facebook. Surely that cannot be right?? How on earth has MY chrome browsing history shown up on HER tablet browsing History??


If a setting needs changing it should surely be defaulted to that on installation. This seems like a serious security risk even if it is only between myself and my wife?

Gally, anyone??

 

Could you have linked the various devices together at some point, even to watch a smart tv from one or more of them?
Is it possible to trace your network paths to see if they are linked?
I never sign on to Google to browse or anything... I don't trust them not to exchange all my personal dealings across our various phones/pcs/tablets etc.

 

She's keeping tabs on you

 

I reckon Google is SkyNet.

 

I did ' mirror ' (fairly unsuccessfully it has to be said) to my TV once but then disconnected the device. We share the same Wi-Fi network via my wireless router (with a separate modem) but I still do not see how logging in one account name on one device and logging in on another device in a different username/Account should allow browsing history to be visible in both accounts. Even on one device i.e. my notebook Win 10 I can only see my favourites/browsing history etc and have to log out and log in to a different account to see the favourites and browser history on that account.

My main worry is that our ISP is a bit strange in that the modem connects to the router OPs (LAN) rather than the WAN so my home network is effectively a sub net on a larger area LAN rather than the modem (connected to the ISP servers via a microwave transmitter/ receiving antenna) being connected to the WAN. We are in a rural area with relatively few nodes connected to the local servers connected to the WAN hub. Seems to be how they do things here when copper/fibre internet access is not an option. If my wife can see my browsing history so easily how fo I know the ISP cannot (albeit I have a firewall on my router between the ISP servers and my 'subnet' ) PS I am not doing anything illegal or accessing porn etc but I do do internet banking and CC transactions on-line. Therefore a bit worried about Chrome/Facebook vulnerabilities

 

I have seen a few leather jacketed bikers wearing shades up and down our road lately !!

 

When you install Chrome, you get the opportunity to log in to your google account(gmail etc). If you do this, it carries your bookmarks, history etc to any other Chrome browser you may be logged into...

 

This has happened with me before. One of my wife's device history showed up on my own phone: it's possibly the case that my search history has shown up on hers. Don't know how they get cynked but they clearly were. Perhaps it's something to do with your google account, my wife uses my gmail and password too.

 

This is the answer.

You can go In to the settings of your chrome/Google account to change it so that it doesn't happen

 

Thanks all for the suggestions. I think she had left herself logged into facebook on my laptop so I need to change the settings as Havana Red suggested.

The problem is I keep getting 'login fails' as I use VPN a lot and from more than one PC and it keeps telling me I am logging in from an unknown device and wants to phone me to give me a verification code !! When I use the alternative option verification code via email it tells me it was successful and then the logon page tells me it cannot log me in!!

I know how I can fix the problems but cannot be a*sed at the moment especially as it wants to ring me with the verification PIN via my UK mobile to and I am on a PAYG SIM for that and live in Italy (I only use the phone on infrequent visits to the UK and it costs a fortune every time I use it here (including receiving texts and incoming calls)) I hate switching it on as I get loads of SPAM when I do and each text message reduces my acc. credit balance.

Google is a bit to clever for its own good and although I like Chrome as it is faster than IE it's things like this that put me off it.