Friday, March 29, 2024

Those Obnoxious “Sign in With Google” Prompts

Marco Arment:

If I ran a website that supported Google-account login, I’d be pretty pissed at how they’re suddenly putting up an obnoxious overlay over my site’s layout.

Why is this not bothering more people? Does anyone give a shit about their websites anymore?

You can log in to prevent Google from blocking part of the page content, but then they’ll probably track you more. This has apparently been going on for almost a year now, but for some reason I rarely saw them. Lately, though, the overlays have been getting in my way multiple times per day.

Via Nick Heer:

I blocked these universally with my user stylesheet in Safari, and you can use a similar rule to mine in an ad blocker. StopTheMadness also hides this gross dialog.

user 1249812398:

I found the switch to disable the google pop-up sign-in prompt here:

  1. Go to “My Account” : “Security”
  2. Click on “See all connections” link in “Your connections to third party apps & services”
  3. Click on the gear at the top of the “Third party apps & services” page
  4. Disable the “Signing in with Google” prompt

This is surprisingly hard to find, and it didn’t work for me, maybe because I missed one of my accounts.

Previously:

Update (2024-09-10): Wil Shipley:

Yay, I’ve figured out how to disable those annoying “Sign in to this site with Google” prompts that have poisoned the web!

…Oh, wait, it only works on Android.

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Save a file "StopGoogleLoginPopup.css" with:

/* ==UserStyle==
@name Stop
@description Stop Google Login Popup
@match https://*/*
==/UserStyle== */

div#credential_picker_container > iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/"],iframe#credential_picker_iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/"]{ display: none !important; }

and enable it on Userscripts.app for the offending websites. Has been working for me on iOS for more than a year.

I found very annoying to be offered the choice of either close every time the eyesore Google popup or to allow it to further track my online activities. I want neither.


> I found the switch to disable the google pop-up sign-in prompt here:
>
> Go to “My Account” : “Security”

So this is just another way if ensuring that Google tracks you, if you want to avoid these pop-ups? Or am I missing something ?


Unfortunately this did not work for me on Mac OS Safari.


> I found the switch to disable the google pop-up sign-in prompt

It seems to be more complicated than that! I had to go to the "list" of third party apps and services.
The only one there was Taskboard, which is what brings up that sign-in popup! I disconnected from that app.

Gabe, this will work. Mac Safari is exactly where I did it.


Every website now goes like this:
Enter URL
Page loads
Accept cookies dialog, click
Back to page
Sign up for emails promotional dialog appears, click to dismiss
Back to page
Sign in to google dialog appears, click to dismiss
Back to page
2nd promotional dialog appears
Oh, f*@k it I'm going outside


Ronald - thanks for the laugh lol!


This dialog "Sign in with Google settings" has an on/off toggle for Android, and a link to instructions for turning it off in Chrome, but offers no hope for Safari, my primary browser. Still getting these annoying "log in with Google" popovers. I guess I will try Stop The Madness.


this did not work for me either on safari I found out it was all ready disabled,
did not work Laura


this action is for android not Mac so totally useless


The setting doesn't exist when visiting Google account settings with Safari.


This does not even work for Chrome on Mac. I had this dialogue pop up, and went to follow these directions, to find that i had already done it on this browser. So no, it clearly doesn't work.


Edouard Drolet

None of this works with an ipad.


Laura Pritchard

Safari Settings > Websites > Popup Windows: Google blocked and it doesn't stop them!
Google is evil.


@Laura Pritchard
Wait, this isn't a popup window, right? It's a floating sheet that comes down on an existing page? I don't think that setting works then.

Yes, the login prompt is annoying.


If you use Google Chrome, you must block the setting from within Chrome itself.

At the top right, select More (3 dots dropdown) and then Settings.
On the left, select Privacy and security and then Site settings.
Under “Content,” select Additional content settings and then Third-party sign-in.

Block sign-in prompts from identity services: If you block this feature, Chrome won’t show sign-in prompts through your identity service. The website you visit or your identity service can still show you similar prompts. You can still log in with your identity service through the typical sign-in buttons or your username and password.


@ GOOGLEDEEZ - THANK YOU! - that worked.


thank you!!


blockgooglebs

courtesy of : https://awesometoast.com/block-those-sign-in-with-google-pop-ups-using-ublock-origin/
add this to ublock origin

! Those incessant "Sign in with Google" boxes
accounts.google.com/gsi/*


Thanks Googledeez!


That worked for me as well. Thanks a million.


Thanks for this, and thanks for not making it a video.


It worked. Not an intuitive location, thanks for ferreting it out.

If you use Google Chrome, you must block the setting from within Chrome itself.

At the top right, select More (3 dots dropdown)

Select Settings.

On the left, select Privacy and security

Select Site settings.

Under “Content,” select Additional content settings

Select Third-party sign-in.

Select Block sign-in prompts from identity services.

Note: If you block this feature, Chrome won’t show sign-in prompts through your identity service.

The website you visit or your identity service can still show you similar prompts.

You can still log in with your identity service through the typical sign-in buttons or your username and password.

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