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Note that these prompts can also be disabled in your Google account settings. I find them very irritating so I've disabled it on all accounts I manage.

https://www.howtogeek.com/735152/how-to-turn-off-the-sign-in...

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I don’t have a google/gmail account (never have, to my recollection), and this pop up is on nearly every page I visit. I can’t get rid of it because I don’t have an account to change the settings on. It’s made me despise google more than I previously did, which I didn’t think was possible.

Thank you DDG for recognizing this infuriating issue. I don’t care if the search results are suboptimal. I love you anyway.

Doesn't that require you to be logged in with Google already?

Yes. If you're not logged in with Google, you won't get these prompts in the first place.

edit: Some comments below suggesting this is mistaken. Sorry, I hadn't noticed that in the past.

Google has decided to show these popups by default to everyone that is browsing the web with tracking protection enabled since October 2022. This prompt has started to pop in our faces on most sites that integrate Google Sign-In as soon as we visit a page, often covering the content we are trying to view, and the website operators need to take specific steps to change the default behavior. We can only applaud DuckDuckGo for attempting to mitigate the destructive actions of Google.

https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/itp#op...

Now this page is also broken (iOS Safari). The sidebar menu is open all the way and blocking most of the page. No way to close it. Nice work, Google!

Not true at all. Happens even in incognito/private windows.

Is this only whilst using Google Chrome? Cause technically most people on Chrome login to it

> Is this only whilst using Google Chrome?

No, also in Firefox and Safari.

> Cause technically most people on Chrome login to it

I don't.

I dont either but most people I know do. I use Firefox containers which deters that dialog if you get the multi account container plugin.

Don't you get the other one, about logging in with Google?

Yes, you do.

The instructions in the “key takeaway” part are wrong. There is no “Google account Sign-in Prompts” option in the "Signing in with Google” section.

They're not wrong, but there are two sections with similar names. Scroll down further to this box.

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2-sign-...

Oops, thank you. One is “to”, and the other is “with”.

Thank you, was looking for this long time.

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