Sign in with Google in Chrome
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Sign in with Google in Chrome
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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#2I actually needed that button the other day. I have an account on Etsy, but wasn't sure if it was sign in with google or an etsy account using my gmail. Signing in to the website's own "login with google" button was a redirect loop. Requesting password reset sent me no email. At some point Chrome offered to sign-in for me, and that worked.
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#3I actually needed that button the other day. I have an account on Etsy, but wasn't sure if it was sign in with google or an etsy account using my gmail. Signing in to the website's own "login with google" button was a redirect loop. Requesting password reset sent me no email. At some point Chrome offered to sign-in for me, and that worked.
I'm never confused about what I've used to sign in because I only use randomly generated passwords using my password manager (Bitwarden), and it offers to use them automatically when I go to a website.
Another advantage is that Google cannot cut my access to all of my accounts on the internet.
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#4I actually needed that button the other day. I have an account on Etsy, but wasn't sure if it was sign in with google or an etsy account using my gmail. Signing in to the website's own "login with google" button was a redirect loop. Requesting password reset sent me no email. At some point Chrome offered to sign-in for me, and that worked.
I'm never confused about what I've used to sign in because I only use randomly generated passwords using my password manager (Bitwarden), and it offers to use them automatically when I go to a website. Another advantage is that Google cannot cut my access to all of my accounts on the internet.
HN userbase is not representative of the large majority of the users of a service.
Most of are fully capable of using a password manager, some even self-hosted that we expose via Tailscale, but for a lot of users, they are using a service to get things done and authentication is a necessary hurdle.
Sign in with Google/Apple/Github solves that.
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#5This popup should be criminal. Ive misclicked the signin button multiple times, causing PII to be sent to a third party I dont trust without my authorization.
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#6This popup should be criminal. Ive misclicked the signin button multiple times, causing PII to be sent to a third party I dont trust without my authorization.
You can create multiple profiles in Chrome. You shouldn't sign into Google in your main profile. That should be reserved for just one profile reserved for Gmail.
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#7This popup should be criminal. Ive misclicked the signin button multiple times, causing PII to be sent to a third party I dont trust without my authorization.
You can create multiple profiles in Chrome. You shouldn't sign into Google in your main profile. That should be reserved for just one profile reserved for Gmail.
Yes blame the victim
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#8This popup should be criminal. Ive misclicked the signin button multiple times, causing PII to be sent to a third party I dont trust without my authorization.
You can create multiple profiles in Chrome. You shouldn't sign into Google in your main profile. That should be reserved for just one profile reserved for Gmail.
You can also just not use chrome. It's still a problem that shouldn't exist and the blame for that falls entirely on Google and the websites that push google's crap on users
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can create multiple profiles in Chrome. You shouldn't sign into Google in your main profile. That should be reserved for just one profile reserved for Gmail.
You can also just not use chrome. It's still a problem that shouldn't exist and the blame for that falls entirely on Google and the websites that push google's crap on users
Edge has its own shenanigans. Solution: When signing into Gmail use Edge. When signing int Outlook use Chrome. That way Google/Microsoft can't use your credentials to sign into the browser itself.
Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome
#10Another annoying, possibly less known thing about this popup is that you as a user can disable it.
But only if you log in to Google and set a preference for your Google account.
No more nagging popups! Sounds great, right?
Except Google can now track you, with a confirmed ID and session cookie across all these sites.
It’s blackmail, plain and simple.