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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by Pesthuf »

On today's episode of "Addicted to the AdTech browser": Our protagonist face yet another case of being fucked over by their favorite advertisement and surveillance vehicle disguised as a web browser. How will they gaslight themselves into keeping their toxic relationship with Chrome alive rather than switching to a browser that respects their privacy and sanity this time?!

> Just one more extension, just one more chrome://flags tweak... He loves me, he respects me, he just has a ... unique way of showing it... I'll just tell my friends I fell and that's why my eye is black... Chrome, I'm sorry I'm not good enough, I probably deserve this...

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by motorest »

figmert wrote: post #181
motorest wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

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

Even taking these comments at face value, this blend of arguments is pretty stupid given that you're making this sort of claims about Firefox when discussing not using Chrome.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by sswezey »

figmert wrote: post #181
motorest wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Google _is_ an ad agency

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by qrobit »

cosmotic wrote: post #5

This 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.

FWIW, these uBlock Origin rules solve the ploblem:

    ||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe
    ##iframe[src^="http://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"]
    ##iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"]
    ##iframe[src^="//accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"]
    ###credential_picker_container
source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78429389. Last rule is from me since popup was invisible but still blocked the content underneath.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by nojs »

reddalo wrote: post #180
joecool1029 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not always the case. Reddit sometimes locks the account until you verify it or reset the password by email. Happened with my email pointed at a .tk domain and I had to call freenom a bunch to get the domain back.

>Reddit sometimes locks the account until you verify it or reset the password by email. I still remember when you could create Reddit accounts without an email...

Brace yourself: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202506/reddit-considers-worl...

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by legends2k »

sneak wrote: post #65
cosmotic wrote: post #5

This 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.

Delete your Google account and this won’t happen.

I haven't signed in to my Google account since browser install but I still see it in StackOveflow.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by Vinnl »

> What you may not realize if you use Safari or Firefox is that the banners are never displayed in Google Chrome!

Ah, so that's why so many websites are OK with it - they probably just don't realise that it's there.

> If the courts and antitrust regulators are reading—they probably won’t read my blog, but one can dream—this is yet another example of Google advantaging its own browser Chrome over other web browsers.

And vice versa: how Google is advantaging its own SSO/data collection platform over others, through Chrome.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by al_borland »

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 find it intrusive on every single site it’s on. Every time I look at how to get rid of it, I’m pointed to a setting in my Google account to stop it, and it does absolutely nothing.

As far as I can tell, I’m more sensitive to this stuff than normal people, but I’m less likely to return to a site that annoys me like this. I’m also less likely to use Google as a result of them being behind this. While it’s not the only reason I use Kagi, it’s certainly an item in the pro/con list.

The same goes for all of Google’s pop-ups and nudges to switch to Chrome. It’s infuriating. Everyone not using Chrome knows Chrome exists and are choosing not to use it. They really need to stop with the heavy handed push and respect user defaults.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by al_borland »

IshKebab wrote: post #191
Sophira wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Users want to use the site and don't care whether or not they are signed up. They do care about going through tedious registration forms and email verification codes. That's why sign-ups go up so much - users know they won't have to deal with the registration tedium.

They trade that for the tedium of dealing with being automatically added to email lists for sites they don’t even remember signing up for and only used one time.

All the spam email is why I’m very picky where I choose to register.

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