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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by shostack »

socalgal2 wrote: post #82
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…

I would never visit a site like pornhub in a profile that I was logged in to anything other than similar sites. note: I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that? The place I hate the popup the most is mobile. It comes up moments (0.5 to 2 seconds) after the site loads (say tripadvisor) which means it's possible accept it by accident as it appears under your finge…

I would be shocked if that timing was not intentional and thoroughly tested for maximizing sign ups.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by aorth »

> This is what Google calls the One Tap user experience. Fortunately, my web browser extension StopTheMadness Pro hides “Sign in with Google” banners.

This sounds awesome. I like the author's classification of this and other anti-user website behaviors as "madness". Are there any similar add-ons for Firefox?

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by tonyhart7 »

Sophira wrote: post #124
StrandedKitty wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy. I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be ben…

You're assuming that the user actually wants to sign up. In reality, it's likely that they're just clicking "Continue" in order to get rid of the dialog and couldn't care less about a signup.

it still ads up in metric yooo, who tf didnt like when the metric numbers goes up????

also you must understand, most people are dumb as shit if you not showing it to the face, then prolly would not notice

that's why big tech not listening to HN user base because they know that its hard to fool nerd

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by bananadonkey »

sunaookami wrote: post #134
matznerd wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

go to chrome://flags , follow these instructions https://youtu.be/q7dnkGdndNo?t=220 then load extension in developer mode

Chrome 139 removes all Manifest v2 code so this will no longer work with it starting... tomorrow https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate... https://chromestatus.com/roadmap

> https://chromestatus.com/roadmap

I clicked the link and got the Sign in with Google prompt... on Firefox.

Why would I ever need to sign in to that website?!

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by dwedge »

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

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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?

What if my problem is that it's funded by Google to the tune of a billion a year and spent a large part of the last two years trying to reposition itself as an ad company?

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by samtheprogram »

kennywinker wrote: post #130
samtheprogram wrote: post #118

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This is not true of any web browser because of fingerprinting. That’s the point of fingerprinting for ad networks. You can try using a different device but even then, I occasionally get recommending things that are definitely influenced by my roommates (i.e. on the same WiFi) Using something that prevents fingerprinting helps, but only if you don’t use that browser all the time — otherwise it’s just another fingerpri…

> This is not true of any web browser because of fingerprinting. Some browsers, like the one you should be using, have anti-fingerprinting tech in them.

You didn’t finish my comment. Read the last sentence.

Anti-fingerprinting tech just produces a different fingerprint. Google knows e.g. when things are scrambled but certain other things stay the same.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by jeroenhd »

kennywinker wrote: post #130
samtheprogram wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not true of any web browser because of fingerprinting. That’s the point of fingerprinting for ad networks. You can try using a different device but even then, I occasionally get recommending things that are definitely influenced by my roommates (i.e. on the same WiFi) Using something that prevents fingerprinting helps, but only if you don’t use that browser all the time — otherwise it’s just another fingerpri…

> This is not true of any web browser because of fingerprinting. Some browsers, like the one you should be using, have anti-fingerprinting tech in them.

Anti fingerprinting is nice but if you get served ads based on your IP address you're going to need more than just a browser to escape tracking based advertising. Adblockers aren't good enough when websites you visit use first-party servers to forward data back to ad networks.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by kro »

promiseofbeans wrote: post #18

I think this is referring to the FedCM api [1] It works with providers other than Google, just no one else has implemented it yet. Google's One Tap library tries to use the new api, and falls back to the classic One Tap popup when using a browser that doesn't yet implement FedCM (notice how the chrome built-in one says "sign in with google.com" rather than "sign in with Google" like One Tap normally shows) Mozilla ar…

What is there to fallback to I wonder - 3rd party cookies should be deprecated/blocked by now, so how can the gsi script retrieve google session information?
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