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This popup should be criminal. Ive misclicked the signin button multiple times, causing PII to be sent to a third party I dont trust without my authorization.

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Don't worry about misclicks, Google already tracked your visit when the webpage was loaded.

Google One Tap works via a script tag from Google servers: https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/displa...

The bad thing is not sharing the info with Google (you are right, just by siing it, Google has your info), but the random third party website.

FWIW, these uBlock Origin rules solve the ploblem:

    ||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe
    ##iframe[src^="http://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"]
    ##iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"]
    ##iframe[src^="//accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"]
    ###credential_picker_container

source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78429389. Last rule is from me since popup was invisible but still blocked the content underneath.

Good information, but you can already turn this off via the (quite hidden, I admit) setting that is mentioned in the article. That's a better way to turn this off completely, rather than patch it via a visual rule.

The article mentions a setting in Chrome only. Someone using uBlock Origin is not using Chrome.

Either way it's something you'd need to go out of your way to configure any time you interact with a new web browser. And both ways can be disabled randomly (Chrome settings changes during browser updates, or uBlock extension being deprecated).

Brave browser does not have an option to turn it off but uBlock Origin custom filter works.

In the Brave community the only solution offered was an adblock filter: brave://adblock (custom filter) ||accounts.google.com/gsi/client$script,third-party

https://community.brave.com/t/annoying-login-with-google-pop...

The irony of getting that popup on Stack Overflow when I clicked that link

Blocked this using uBlock since years ago.

I hope the PMs are reading this thread. They misjudged the tradeoffs

If teaching ethics to big tech worked, this would've ceased to be a problem more than a decade ago.

Delete your Google account and this won’t happen.

It happens a lot regardless of browser and accounts and incognito. It just pops up everywhere.

I haven't signed in to my Google account since browser install but I still see it in StackOveflow.

I agree that it is problematic. You can mostly block it with the uBlock extension.

You can create multiple profiles in Chrome. You shouldn't sign into Google in your main profile. That should be reserved for just one profile reserved for Gmail.

Yes blame the victim

You can also just not use chrome. It's still a problem that shouldn't exist and the blame for that falls entirely on Google and the websites that push google's crap on users

Edge has its own shenanigans. Solution: When signing into Gmail use Edge. When signing int Outlook use Chrome. That way Google/Microsoft can't use your credentials to sign into the browser itself.

Better: Use browsers not owned by search companies

Safari seems to have this too, now — especially with the latest iOS 18.

Any workarounds would be massively appreciated.

This is the #1 reason I don't use apple OS. Even if you install another browser it's just a wrapper around safari restrictions...gross.

Firefox?

There is one! Mac only though.

Scroll down to "#credential_picker_container" here: https://pxlnv.com/blog/user-stylesheets-are-still-pretty-gre...

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