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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Our Enterprise Chrome doesn't allow me to access the page to disable this behavior. Signing out of Chrome (but leaving extensions and bookmarks) is the only way I've found to stop the never-ending Google sign-in prompts.

If someone's found a setting page that does what he describes please reply here. This makes me crazy and seems incredibly risky.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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> They are actively working on the standard and Firefox has committed to it. Mozilla standards position says neutral: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#fedcm Their issue tracker on the subject shows they are interested but have a lot of reservations about the details: > However, some of our reservations on the initial positive position have not been addressed and some new issues have arisen. — https://gi…

I don't speak for Mozilla, but I did see a bug in bugzilla which showed the blocking bugs for FedCM. I don't have the link now, but can share it later. That's what I thought of when I stated Firefox has committed to it. But I could be wrong. I do see a Mozilla employee engaging regularly. You can see some of the issues he has filed here: https://github.com/w3c-fedid/FedCM/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20sta...

> I did see a bug in bugzilla which showed the blocking bugs for FedCM. I don't have the link now, but can share it later.

Here's the tracking bug for FedCM support: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1959702

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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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…

I'm curious - how does the standard make "to continue, google.com will share your name, e-mail address and profile picture" compatible with "a modern, privacy-preserving standard for federated identity on the web" ?? I mean, that doesn't sound privacy-preserving at all?

It refers to the property of FedCM that means nothing about your account is revealed to the website until you click the "Continue As" button. In other words, alternatives to this that use third-party cookies enable tracking you between websites without any user interaction.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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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…

> note: I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that?

I first read this as directed at the person you're replying to (me) but then saw a second possible reading: the site should know better as to expect you are logged into google with like one click

Idk which it is so I'll answer both: people are logged into their OS these days, call it Chrome (the browser, but it's close enough to an OS nowadays) or Android but either way it's a big trackfest and nobody besides a few nerds like us here bats an eye. And I indeed don't visit those sites with cookie states of other sites ^^

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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post #192

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> I would never visit a site like pornhub in a profile that I was logged in to anything other than similar sites. But that's not relevant. The popup appears whether you're logged into a google account or not. It's just an extremely annoying popup that appears all over the web.

It does not for me and I only use chrome. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chrome has it built into the browser. If you fake the Chrome user agent string from Firefox, it'll also not show up (but you shoot yourself in the foot in other ways so I'm not advising that). Or so I heard on Mastodon a few days ago iirc

This also means that Google made it unblockable in Chrome. User scripts and extensions cannot block a browser UI feature... I guess thankfully you haven't logged in on the browser and it's clever enough not to spam it then

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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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…

>Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Porn sites are a testament that no amount of popups, ads, clickjacking, etc. can deter users from your site if your product is compelling enough.

There's a reason pornhub and reddit won over other sites where there was more shit in your face (not meant to be read literally)

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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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.

"Private" and "incognito" mode are fundamentally misnamed. They provide almost no real privacy wrt counterparties over the network, just to other people using the same computer after you. Amnesiac mode, if you will.

I remember upon introduction, tech news would jokingly refer to it as the porn button if they were immature enough (and let's face it, back then most of us and the web news sites were quite literally immature). Sounds like that would be more accurate, but it fell out of style and now we have this name :(

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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post #188
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?

I might consider switching back to Google Search if there were a "put any good results without tracking wall up top" setting

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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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…

Do I find it intrusive? Yes, it doesn't matter what site it is on.

Agree it's intrusive on all sites, but that is like the last place where I want to make mental space for "hey btw big brother is tracking you here too ;)" reminder popups

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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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…

Try visiting pornhub from Texas :)

I'm not that interested in visiting the USA right now gotta be honest
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