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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by soraminazuki »

Barrin92 wrote: post #89
cebert wrote: post #83

I get why Google finds this advantageous, but I don’t understand why so many brands want to willingly diminish the impression and reputation of their web properties by adding “Sign in with Google.”

>want to willingly diminish the impression and reputation of their web properties because that's not what happening. The average Chrome user finds that feature useful, and personally I have to agree because having a sign-in option through the browser chrome (the non-content portion of the application, bad name in this case) is significantly more sane from a security standpoint than trusting the webpage operator. why…

Poor Google, they have to screw over the entire online population for their own sake. The masses love being screwed over, which is why Google uses dark patterns instead of having people make informed decisions. That this helps make Google even richer is just a happy accident. Shame on technologists who question Google's morality!

Yep, that logic makes total sense. /s

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by inversetelecine »

venusenvy47 wrote: post #235
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've never added a custom filter. Do they sync to all my Firefox browsers that have uBO installed?

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by inversetelecine »

nosianu wrote: post #195
hammock wrote: post #50

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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

There is the "Lite" version by the same author written for the current Chrome. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/... Works fine for me. It has a lot less options, truly "Lite", but most people will be fine. Whatever Google might do that will make this extension worthless, we will se, for now, it seems to be working. (It's funny that the Chrome Web Store lists this extension as "Featured".) B…

Supposedly, filter lists only get updated when the extension is updated with uBO-lite. Google could just start delaying approval for these adblockers and their filter lists would become out of date fairly quick.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by encom »

scarface_74 wrote: post #228
al_borland wrote: post #220

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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.

I've encountered more than a few places that block temp emails like 10minutemail etc. It's so infuriating.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by encom »

hammock wrote: post #231
motorest wrote: post #158

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> 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?

The last thing I remember about Firefox was that it was a memory hog. Maybe this has changed in recent years

Firefox is still terrible, but it's now the least worst browser.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by metadat »

avel wrote: post #236
qrobit wrote: post #214

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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.

Good information, but you can already turn this off via the (quite hidden, I admit) setting that is mentioned in the article. That's a better way to turn this off completely, rather than patch it via a visual rule.

Either way it's something you'd need to go out of your way to configure any time you interact with a new web browser. And both ways can be disabled randomly (Chrome settings changes during browser updates, or uBlock extension being deprecated).

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by mh- »

skydhash wrote: post #210
saintfire wrote: post #133

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How does Firefox improve on icognito? I haven't used chrome in a long time but as far as I was aware they do the same thing: wipe session data on close.

If you add your Google account into chrome, it will bring it into Incognito mode.

I don't experience this at all; in what way are you saying?

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by dotancohen »

whynotmaybe wrote: post #227
dotancohen wrote: post #200

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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.

I love how the word submit takes on a second meaning in this context.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by jsnell »

skydhash wrote: post #210
saintfire wrote: post #133

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How does Firefox improve on icognito? I haven't used chrome in a long time but as far as I was aware they do the same thing: wipe session data on close.

If you add your Google account into chrome, it will bring it into Incognito mode.

That is not true.
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