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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by B-Con »

techjamie wrote: post #73
gwbas1c wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can we block sharing email addresses by default? It seems every time I sign in with Google the site / app starts SPAMming me without my consent. It's pretty much why I don't use it: The SPAM.

My gmail is quite old and well used, and it gets relatively little spam. I go through and aggressively unsubscribe link everything I don't want to see, and it surprisingly works. I get more spam on my @myname.tld address than my gmail even and I keep that one quieter. Almost every site actually does unsubscribe, and those that don't get marked as junk.

I've maintained one vanity email for about 15 years. I use it for literally everything. I unsubscribe from everything.

It gets some typical low effort spam that the spam filters easily screen out, other than that it's pretty quite.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by lucumo »

w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #34
lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time) Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the ex…

Of course! That's why I even added this to my uBlock filter list on mobile: accounts.google.com/gsi/client

I did too, until uBO got blocked. So I had to reevaluate.

Chrome now has a site setting that blocks this crap. For the browser-based popup at least. That's the one that pops up in the top-right and is not part of the DOM of the page.

You can go directly to chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi to set "Block sign-in prompts from identity services" as the default behaviour for sites. You can also set exceptions for some sites if you want that.

If you need to go there manually, it is:

1. Settings 2. Privacy and security (in the menu on the left) 3. Site settings (at the bottom) 4. Expand Additional content settings (under Content) 5. Third-party sign-in

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by chrismcb »

lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time) Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the ex…

Do I find it intrusive? Yes, it doesn't matter what site it is on.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by smsm42 »

_nickwhite wrote: post #57
hammock wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you get ublock to work in chrome after the update? I tried a fix I found here but it resets every time I restart the browser

Use ungoogled-chromium (or Firefox).

I use Brave and never seen those popups. Only read about them. I didn't configure anything special, as far as I remember.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by motorest »

lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time) Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the ex…

> Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub?

It's extremely intrusive, regardless of which site it shows up. It's a reminder that the likes of Google are collecting all the personal information they can get from you, and building up a personal profile that covers all aspects of your life, not only your online presence.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by blahlabs »

Nathanba wrote: post #113
patrickscoleman wrote: post #93

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their "private" is not private. about a month ago, i searched for some health-related stuff in a chrome incognito window and then immediately afterwards got related sponsored product ads on amazon in a logged in normal window.

The firefox private window seems to work better than the chrome incognito mode. Maybe brave would be even better because I tested brave against fingerprinting libraries once and it was the best at avoiding any detection.

Brave confuses me. On one hand it seems to have quite good privacy tech, but then on the other hand there are instances of what seem to be quite shady actions. Both impressions come from comments and anecdotes, I have not looked into it myself.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by motorest »

godelski wrote: post #140
_nickwhite wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use ungoogled-chromium (or Firefox).

> or Firefox Or just use Firefox because even using chromium is empowering Google to keep playing these games. Maybe you have a problem with Firefox (most people won't notice the difference) but is that problem worse that the problem you have with Google?

> Or just use Firefox because even using chromium is empowering Google to keep playing these games.

This. People like to complain about problems, but I wonder why they don't invest half that energy in actually fixing the problems.

> Maybe you have a problem with Firefox (...)

I've started to notice there is a very vocal opposition of Firefox whose common trait is that they actually do not or cannot present any tangible argument against Firefox. They just shit talk about Firefox, and hand-wave their criticism with inane comments like "they lost the boat".

Sometimes I wonder where that absurdity comes from.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by motorest »

hammock wrote: post #50
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course! That's why I even added this to my uBlock filter list on mobile: accounts.google.com/gsi/client

How do you get ublock to work in chrome after the update? I tried a fix I found here but it resets every time I restart the browser

> How do you get ublock to work in chrome after the update?

Why does anyone keep using Chrome if they care the slightest about privacy? You're using a browser owned by a company that sells online ads. What do you expect?

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by tomschwiha »

edoceo wrote: post #88
tomschwiha wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I personally have my personal email as Google account email, so even when I lose my access to google I am still in control of my domain (and email).

And still couldn't sign-in-with-google. On an email linked that way, so no password recovery. Would likely be a new account - with bonus "that address is already in use" problem.

I agree, there may be an additional step necessary if the page doesn't handle this case already, but this way you can still prove (more easily) ownership to the support.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by dijit »

godelski wrote: post #139
lucb1e wrote: post #12

Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time) Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the ex…

> nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit I did a bunch of trial and error awhile back instead of reading the docs but you can add a rule to ublock that will look something like this. Hopefully someone comments a better filter than this mess lol ||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select?client_id=* Fuck all these banners... Fuck all these cookie popups... I just want to browse Seriously, how the fuck do…

> Seriously, how the fuck do people raw dog the web? It's unbearable.

I agree, I got it to “work for me” by only using the sites I like, but there are times where I stray from my beaten path because I’m searching for something and it’s awful. I don’t think I would have fallen in love with computers if I was raised with the web being what it currently is.

I wonder if this is a driver of ChatGPT as a search engine, everything else is so bafflingly bad and all people really want is information.

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