Do you mind me asking are you using chome?
Yes, I'm using Chrome. Somehow I was too lazy to change to Brave, I still don't like Opera and I still find Firefox unconvincing in making me return to it.
It's OK I
found my answer: Google accounts integration ("
GAIA") is disabled. That'd be why

Changing from Chrome to a Chromium-fork is more or less unnoticeable imo.
Bare in mind that Chrome has
100+ vulnerabilities per year, Brave
hasn't had one yet in 2019. Just saying
Correction: Here