Browser web page gets sync’d across different macBooks

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I have 2 macBook Pro's (Catalina and Big Sur) and somehow when I open any web page in Chrome/Brave browser on 1 macBook, it gets synced to the other macBook and a new Chrome icon opens up on the dock. And when I click that, the exact same page what I have opened up in my macBook gets opened on the other macBook.

I checked if the browser has sync enabled but it is not.

Can anyone suggest something I can do to stop the browsers from syncing across the macBooks ?

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macOS uses Continuity to sync application state between devices logged into the same AppleID. See the linked support page for ways to configure this in detail.

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