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by pudgywalsh 9 days ago
I'm waiting for the new killer feature where "Sign In With Google" popup overlay dialogs go away forever and never come back.
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Fucking hell, they modified Chrome/ium to pop up an application dialog (it's not just somr HTML inside the web page) to "log-in using Google".. fuck Google!

Maybe next they'll get Chrome to automatically turn on your webcam, capture your face and say "Thanks for logging in!"

So don't use Chrome/Chromium. The web is so much better with uBlock Origin anyway!!
I use Vivaldi, sadly it's based on Chromium and has quite a bit of the stinky parts...

(Currently on an old Vivaldi version that still allows manifest v2.. I guess I'm asking to be pwned)

At this point it's probably better to switch to Firefox or Brave.
Drink your verification can.
Ironically it was DuckDuckGo's AI that gave me the magic string for uBlock origin:

accounts.google.com/gsi/*

Put that in your config and enjoy.

uBlock Origin with the EasyList Annoyances filter is better than anything that Google can ever provide. I haven't seen Google popups in my desktop browser for a long time.
Guess what, there are browser settings for that!
Not in Firefox there isn't. It's part of the website.
I use a 30-seconds-of-work horribly-hacked Stylus setting to make it a blue dot that can expand on hover:

@-moz-document regexp(".") { / Insert code here... */ #credential_picker_container { width: fit-content !important; height: fit-content !important; } iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select"] { width: 10px !important; height: 10px !important; border-radius: 50% !important; background-color:blue !important; } iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select"]:hover { width: 300px !important; height: 300px !important; border-radius: 0 !important; } }

Sorry, what is stylus? I'd love to get that configured. Those pop-ups are damn annoying.
It's like Grease monkey for CSS instead of JS.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/