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Yes and it pissed me off because on mobile it pops up like 0.5-2 seconds late so if you're unlucky you go to click on something and it popups up under your finger and you've suddenly signed up and shared your info with a company you had no intention of ever signing up with.

I complained to Google. I have a GSuites domain and I don't want my users to be able to sign up via Google. No resolution. I suggest you all complain too

I semi worked around it by adding accounts.google.com to my ublock origin block list but about once a month I have to turn it off to allow me to log into Google.

Note: I'm not against google. I am against this auto-popup. The logical conclusion is you'll go to a page and get 6 of those popups or more. One to sign up with Google, one to sign up with Apple. One to sign up with Facebook. One to sign up with Linkedin, etc...

The design of that system by google is not a good design based on the idea that if everyone did it it would be bad. Google should top it. If I click "sign up" on the sight then let the site offer me "login with X" and don't contect X until I click "login with X"



> I semi worked around it by adding accounts.google.com to my ublock origin block list but about once a month I have to turn it off to allow me to log into Google.

This is where uBO's dynamic filtering[1] is useful, as it allows you to globally block `accounts.google.com`, and then unblock it only for specific sites by overriding the global block rule with a local noop rule.

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[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...


Thanks for your work! A true friend of the internet.


Also I reflexively clicked ok out of laziness and annoyance without knowing what it was. Not quite a dark pattern but you certainly aren’t completely aware what it’s asking within the first second of seeing it.


aren’t completely aware what it’s asking

That is one example of a dark pattern.


This filter did it for me:

||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select$subdocument

It blocks just the popups and not the login page itself. But Google may change their methods at any time to circumvent it, so your way is more robust.


> popups up under your finger and you've suddenly signed up

Happened to me as well. So i guess their plan worked. So glad they care about my privacy.




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