Who is Tessa, and why do they have a profile in my Chromium?

Question

When I browse to chrome://signin-dice-web-intercept/?debug it says,

Continue in a new Chromium profile? Tessa is already signed in to this Chromium profile. To keep your browsing separate, Chromium can create your own profile for you.

Who is Tessa?

I get the same thing, actually. Tessa is already signed in to this Chrome profile. This will create a new Chrome profile for sam.sample@intercepted.com — squillman, Aug 29 '23 at 20:42

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '23 at 20:50

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I believe this is just the default name of the profile when you you don't log in on Chromium, you can see it in the code in dice_web_signin_interception_bubble_view_browsertest.cc,

    primary_account.account_id = CoreAccountId::FromGaiaId("primary_ID");
    primary_account.given_name = "Tessa";
    primary_account.full_name = "Tessa Tester";
    primary_account.email = "tessa.tester@primary.com";
    primary_account.hosted_domain =
        is_primary_account_managed ? "primary.com" : kNoHostedDomainFound;

However it seems like a poor idea to tell you that you're "already signed in" to an account that you never signed in to, and don't recognize.

answered Aug 29 '23 at 20:50

Evan Carroll

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Wondered if this was the case, but was too lazy to go find the code – squillman Aug 29 '23 at 20:56
@squillman they don't call me "The Most Useful Member of SuperUser" for nothing! ;) – Evan Carroll Aug 29 '23 at 20:59
@EvanCarroll Who are these "they"? :) – DavidPostill Aug 29 '23 at 21:25
@EvanCarroll - no, they're saying you're the most useful for nothing :D – Jaromanda X Aug 30 '23 at 00:32
@JaromandaX Of course they would say I'm the most useful, for nothing. Wtf would I have to give them something to say the truth? – Evan Carroll Aug 30 '23 at 16:21

Who is Tessa, and why do they have a profile in my Chromium?

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