Comment by fauigerzigerk

4 days ago

You can disable it in your Chrome settings: chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi

Websites that choose to put a sign-in with Google button on a page can disable the popup by setting data-auto_prompt="false". The default being "true" is how Google is pushing this, but this seems like a rather gentle way of pushing.

It's clearly a deliberate choice that websites make. Your explanation as to why they're doing it seems very plausible to me.

2 comments

fauigerzigerk

al_borland 3 days ago

I don’t using Chrome. Having to use Chrome to disable a Google “feature” doesn’t feel like a path forward.

fauigerzigerk 3 days ago

I think this whole functionality is actually based on an experimental browser API (FedCM) that may be coming to other browsers as well.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FedCM_API
But ultimately websites can pop up whatever annoying nonsense they want. There isn't really any "way forward" except avoiding bad websites or using ad blockers.