▲ | socalgal2 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
I would never visit a site like pornhub in a profile that I was logged in to anything other than similar sites. note: I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that? The place I hate the popup the most is mobile. It comes up moments (0.5 to 2 seconds) after the site loads (say tripadvisor) which means it's possible accept it by accident as it appears under your finger. Your info is immediately shared so there is no way to recover. You're effed. I means sure, I hate it on desktop too, but on mobile it's directly on top of the content and so more likely to be accepted by accident. IIRC you can turn this off in your Google account (or maybe only Google Workspace?) Note that I hate it for other reasons too. There's no reason Apple/Firefox/Microsoft/Meta and any other major id providers couldn't offer this too. But if they did, then you'd see 5 of these show up [Sign in with Google], [Sign in with Apple], [Sign in with Facebook], [Sign in with Microsoft], [Sign in with Firefox]. So in other words, this seems like a tragedy of the commons in progress. To steelman the feature though, easily sign up and easy login would be super convenient if that's what I wanted. It might be nice for a Web API that made this more privacy focused (or maybe that already exists). But yes, I'd like to see Google's specific popup disappear - be banned. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | jorams 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> I would never visit a site like pornhub in a profile that I was logged in to anything other than similar sites. But that's not relevant. The popup appears whether you're logged into a google account or not. It's just an extremely annoying popup that appears all over the web. | |||||||||||||||||
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▲ | shostack 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I would be shocked if that timing was not intentional and thoroughly tested for maximizing sign ups. | |||||||||||||||||
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▲ | lucb1e 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> note: I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that? I first read this as directed at the person you're replying to (me) but then saw a second possible reading: the site should know better as to expect you are logged into google with like one click Idk which it is so I'll answer both: people are logged into their OS these days, call it Chrome (the browser, but it's close enough to an OS nowadays) or Android but either way it's a big trackfest and nobody besides a few nerds like us here bats an eye. And I indeed don't visit those sites with cookie states of other sites ^^ | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | bravesoul2 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I wouldn't visit it without tails at this point. But I go for the better option than tails. Just dont visit it! | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | afavour 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> I'm not excusing the feature but come on! Have some common sense before visiting a site like that? For sure… but there’s a self-fulfilling element there. If no one with common sense would ever use the feature… why add the feature? | |||||||||||||||||
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