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The Most Unwanted Notification in Chrome is the annoying pop-up that asks if I want to make Chrome my default browser. The second most are the "sign in with Google" pop-ups on many many websites. My answer is, "NEVER".

The internet monopolists sound like they have gotten desperate, trying to monetize, capture, and surveil the last few independent users. Sooner you are broken up the better!

-- Happy Duck user

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At work we have to use these Citrix environments on thin clients with sessions that get nuked after a few hours of disuse. Nothing trains you to muscle-memory to Edge quite like avoiding the whole Chrome onboarding experience every few hours. Edge is annoying too but much easier to ignore. You click the shit and get a URL bar not this whole amnesiac Googleverse login spiel. Edge annoys you to login, too but the annoyance at least GTFOs of the way.

Sounds like you are blaming the symptom instead of the disease.

By "disease" are you referring to the constant patina of dark UI patterns or my awareness of them?

>The second most are the "sign in with Google" pop-ups on many many websites. My answer is, "NEVER".

That's not even a chrome thing. I see it in firefox as well.

> That's not even a chrome thing. I see it in firefox as well.

Firefox is Google's child. When Google cuts financing, it will die. /s

Firefox, since about 10 years, copies every crap that Chrome implements: UI - check, user hostility - check, frequent updates - check, poor security - check.

The point is that the "Log in with Google" notifications aren't in the browser code they're in the website code.

You can disable both

No you can't, because less than a month later Google will come back and start assaulting you with notifications again. "Sign into Google" this, "Switch to Chrome" that, "pick which browser" in Gmail mobile despite having a default set...

How much for someone to go to Mountain View and just go start pestering every single Google employee that walks by the exact same they do it to us? When security shows up, we can just say "no, not now" and "maybe later" to them, just like we only have the choice given to us.

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