Blocking the "Sign in with Google" Prompt (2023)

&gt; accounts.google.com&#x2F;gsi&#x2F;*<p>This filter might break functionality on some sites, so it&#x27;s better to use more specified version:<p><pre><code> ||accounts.google.com&#x2F;gsi&#x2F;*$xhr,3p </code></pre> Explanation of the relevant syntax:<p><pre><code> `[no prefix]`: Blocks resources that have this text string anywhere in its URL. `||`: Blocks resources that have a specific domain or subdomain. `$3p`: Ensures that resources from a domain are only blocked if you&#x27;re not visiting the domain itself. `$xhr`: Prevents such resources from being downloaded through the titular JavaScript APIs. </code></pre> More Ad-filtering syntax explained: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DandelionSprout&#x2F;adfilt&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Wiki&#x2F;SyntaxMeaningsThatAreActuallyHumanReadable.md">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;DandelionSprout&#x2F;adfilt&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Wiki&#x2F;S...</a>

I wonder how anyone can think &#x27;you know what, my website, that you don&#x27;t even need to sign in to for 99% of the use cases, needs a big popup from google!&#x27;<p>Aside from the security&#x2F;privacy considerations, why the fuck would you do that to a website? SSO from a login page? sure, whatever. a f&#x27;ing popup on every page for a SINGLE provider? That is just brain-rot. Do they pay you to do this?

Just go into ublock origin settings -&gt; Filter lists -&gt; enable &quot;Social widges&quot; and &quot;Annoyances&quot; (you can experiment with only some of them, but I enabled everything years ago and never had major problems).<p>It takes care of a lot of this stuff, including cookie banners and all sorts of popups. Buy a beer for list maintainers (some of them accept donations) since Raymond doesn&#x27;t, and their work is equally valuable.

It&#x27;s a dark pattern to trick users into handing over their email.<p>Accidentally clicked on one these instead of the close button and then started immediately receiving incessant marketing spam from that website. Of course I wasn&#x27;t able to unsubscribe from the mailing list without first creating an account with them and accepting their terms so ended up resorting to blocking their email.

The new “Hide Distracting Items” feature in iOS18 Safari has been a godsend for me. Just tap on the offending overlay&#x2F;prompt and watch it disappear into the digital ether.<p>Even with ad blockers, these sign in prompts are becoming increasingly common and annoying.<p>Blocking Google and Reddit sign in popups especially have restored some of my sanity.

With a nice example demo of how annoying it is from superuser.stackoverflow!

&gt; There are several tutorials on the Internet on how to avoid this, for example, this one on How-To Geek, which suggest disabling an option in the Google account. However, this doesn&#x27;t work, since mine is not enabled and never was:<p>I don&#x27;t have google account (or better yet - I&#x27;m not logged in to it in any reasonable manner) yet the promp shows constantly :|<p>f* google

From the comment:<p>&gt; Note that the &quot;disabling an option in the Google account&quot; is not a possibility if you use firstparty-isolate or any other privacy features that prevent embeds like this from seeing your Google session cookie. This is another motivation to want a way to block it browser-side.<p>I literally can&#x27;t remember all sort of site isolation, cross site request or whatnot privacy feature and exceptions.<p>If we can throw away all backward compatibility, can we have something simpler? Or is this just unsolvable because how complex the problem is?

How is this &quot;feature&quot; not a privacy&#x2F;security issue?<p>Why do I get the sense that the whole push towards single-sign-on, OAuth, etc was just to push for a single, ad-controlled login?

Ironically, when I clicked on it I got one to sign into StackExchange.

The fact this prompt seems to block the first click of input on the actual site usually is indefensible. Not including an easy to find and easy to understand option in Chrome to just disable it outright with a 100% success rate just adds to the evidence that giving Google any power on the internet was a mistake.

I like this popping up. It makes it pretty clear that the site favours bloatware and tracking and is to generally be avoided.

Also can probably use a custom DNS with De-Google filter.