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Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by lucb1e » Thu, Jul 31, 2025, 8:14 PM UTC

abustamam wrote: post #282

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…

Reminds me of a tweet I saw a long time ago that went something like "PornHub lets you share videos on Google+. That's disgusting! I don't want people to know I use Google+!" That said, it is quite invasive.

(I laughed out loud.) Hey! I liked Google+ >:( Met some cool people on that site and I guess my thought was that anything is better than a facebook monopoly on social media and this has an actual chance

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by figmert » Fri, Aug 01, 2025, 10:57 AM UTC

motorest wrote: post #212

figmert wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

To be clear, I do use Firefox and haven't even installed Chrome/Chromium for a long time. But given that Mozilla is inching closer and closer towards ad agency, it's only a matter of time that Firefox will open up the same issues that Chrome has.

The argument of Firefox vs Chrome is not siloed and inherently includes the argument of what their respective developers do and don't do. If we didn't need to include them in the face of such an argument, there would be little reason to switch away Chrome.

Re: Sign in with Google in Chrome

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Post by abustamam » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 3:17 PM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #311

abustamam wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of a tweet I saw a long time ago that went something like "PornHub lets you share videos on Google+. That's disgusting! I don't want people to know I use Google+!" That said, it is quite invasive.

(I laughed out loud.) Hey! I liked Google+ >:( Met some cool people on that site and I guess my thought was that anything is better than a facebook monopoly on social media and this has an actual chance

I actually did like Google+ as well. I used Google Buzz (I believe it was the precursor to Google+) because Twitter seemed weird, and then it just made sense for me to use Google+ because I was already invested in the ecosystem. And it just seemed so much cozier than FB.