Those Obnoxious “Sign in With Google” Prompts
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.
I found the switch to disable the google pop-up sign-in prompt here:
- Go to “My Account” : “Security”
- Click on “See all connections” link in “Your connections to third party apps & services”
- Click on the gear at the top of the “Third party apps & services” page
- 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:
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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 ?
> 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
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.
