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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by figmert »

motorest wrote: post #157
godelski wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 tangib…

> 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".

Have you seen that Mozilla has basically become an ad agency?

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by reddalo »

lucumo wrote: post #152
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #34

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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 exception…

> until uBO got blocked

If you're on Android, give Firefox a try. It works well and it has full support for uBlock Origin.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by weberer »

aorth wrote: post #142

> 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?

I use uMatrix to block all third-party requests by default.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by rvnx »

CalRobert wrote: post #138
Sophira wrote: post #124

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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.

In fairness, they never said they thought the user signups were intentional..

Behind it, add one-click Stripe “free trial” and you boosted your revenues at zero cost.

Maybe even call this button “Accept all”, like these cookie banners

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by bayindirh »

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

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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.

But the number goes up, the line goes up. VCs like that, it's growth!!!

P.S.: This is obvious irony, I don't support this DataGrab(TM), fyi.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by cm2187 »

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…

And google’s “do as I say, not as I do”. Doesn’t their search engine penalise websites with popups/overlays as it is meant to be user hostile?

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by dns_snek »

ajross wrote: post #106
MiddleEndian wrote: post #104

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But it's a similar concept. If someone accidentally gives some website their name + email, they could be part of a leak for some service they don't even use. People probably care less about Tea in particular because they've never heard about it before the data leaks.

"So-and-so used Tea" is clearly not the focus of the coverage of the Tea app leak. Again, let's be explicit about impacts here. You can deploy hyperbole and hypothesis to make anyone a horrifying villain. But if you do that at least be honest about it. Edit to note: the Tea story has now fallen off the front page while this one is still going strong.

> You can deploy hyperbole and hypothesis to make anyone a horrifying villain.

Alternatively you can deploy a dismissive attitude and subtle ridicule to make any concern sound silly, no matter how important the issue is to people for a variety of different reasons which you don't seem to be receptive to understanding.

And that sort of infighting is certainly many orders of magnitude more fashionable, both on social media and in real life, than people being observant and critical of companies and governments when they find new ways of eroding our rights and freedoms a little bit more than they already have.

I sympathize with ~everyone affected by any type of data leak, but I'm only human with limited time and attention. That means I can't actively engage with every single issue that plagues our world, both out of practical, as well as sanity-maintaining reasons.

Implying that we're hypocrites if we don't engage with completely unrelated issues before we engage with issues that directly affect us is probably the clearest example of a bad faith argument I've read on this site in a very long time.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by frizlab »

josteink wrote: post #10

Another 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.

I never see this popup in my main browser thanks to proper content blockers, but it should not exist in the first place, indeed.
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