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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

mooreds wrote: post #21

The Chrome experience is actually part of a new standard, Federated Credential Management (or FedCM for short). The idea is to create a browser mediated login experience that gives the identity provider and web app what they need without being able to correlate requests across the Internet. I am working on an article on this topic. If you are interested in learning more, here's a video from a recent auth focused conf…

Vaguely reminds me of the now defunct OpenID. But with browser-native integration.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by lucumo »

reddalo wrote: post #182
lucumo wrote: post #152

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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.

I tried for a few months, but sync kept failing.

And with uBO Lite I got nearly everything I used uBO for.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by al_borland »

patrickscoleman wrote: post #93
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…

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.

Try Mullvad’s browser. It does a lot more to avoid user fingerprinting, even locking the resolution of the rendered content to various sizes. There are some things that make it less practical as a daily driver, but it seems good as a secondary browser for private mode.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by fHr »

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 do and that is why I remain neutral/buy on their stock, Meta and Google are bad bad bad actors with to much power in the web.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by al_borland »

rtpg wrote: post #78

Kinda related to this: I _really_ wish that SSO providers would be better about telling me when my account was already used to log into a service. When I hit "sign in with Google", see my 4 accounts, and have to guess which one I used to sign into the service... Maybe I'm missing some security detail here

This is my big issue too. There are some times where I think I have SSO for something, but don’t remember with who, so I spend 5 minutes logging into various providers and hunting down where they say what sites I’m using SSO with, so I can see what to use.

I started adding them to my password manager as a quick reference, but the irony is that this makes the SSO slower than a typical standard login. I almost never use these SSO options anymore as a result.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by whynotmaybe »

dotancohen wrote: post #200
whynotmaybe wrote: post #41

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And we should also do something about website that consider you a "customer" when you've only started an order and entered your email but you've never pressed submit to complete the order.

Does that happen to you often?

Not often, but recently.

And after giving it some thought, I guess that I'm also in the wrong to believe that I have to press submit somewhere to agree to their policies.

This is a "nice" reminder that just entering my email in a text input is enough to send it to any website.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by scarface_74 »

al_borland wrote: post #220
IshKebab wrote: post #191

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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.

That’s why I register to sites with Apple using Hide my Email and I can just disable forwarding for the one burner email that spam is coming from.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by [deleted] »

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

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> 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?

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