Marco Arment
If I ran a website that supported Google-account login, I'd be pretty pissed at how they're suddenly putting up an obnoxious overlay over my site's layout. Why is this not bothering more people? Does anyone give a shit about their websites anymore? Does Google?  38 comments
Daphne Sak
@je @marcoarment Teach us your pop-up-blocking ways! Can I do this using Pi-hole, or is this only a thing you can do with uBlock?
Kyebr
@daphnesak @je @marcoarment It shouldn't be possible by pi-Hole as it's a widget embedded by website and will stop you from logging into any of your Google account. If you add the specific domain to blocklist.
R
@daphnesak @je @marcoarment In uBlock Origin you can use an element selector tool to hide something like this. Try that maybe. 
Wesley Moore
@marcoarment Certainly bothers me as a visitor to these sites. I have Stylus (user styles browser extension) code to hide it on all sites. 
Karl Baron
@ac @marcoarment Paying is for losers. Why would they pay when they can just muscle in? What are the sites going to do, remove Google login so that their users can’t log in anymore? 
Johnny ‘Decimal’ Noble
@EshuMarneedi @marcoarment *Surely* Doordash enabled this? It would boggle my mind if Google could just turn this on and it appear on your site one day.
Arnaud
@johnnydecimal @EshuMarneedi @marcoarment That the popup is nicely positioned under the buttons is no coincidence, they integrated it that way. One thing that is new (but not shown here) is that chrome can display it as part of trusted browser ui without 3rd party cookies. It seems bad but it's a proposed standard and not limited to google, firefox is working on it https://chromestatus.com/feature/6438627087220736
Nick Heer
@marcoarment It’s awful, and the only way to hide them is to remain signed into Google, apparently. (I added something to my user style sheet to hide them.)
Jasper Lai
@nickheer @marcoarment To be completely honest, I don’t know **exactly** what this does and doesn’t turn off—partly because I’m always signed in to **a** Google account. If it’s an account setting, does it really know not to bother me if I’m signed out? Your solution is arguably better for people with the know-how, but at least this setting is **something** for “normal” people. Awful all around. I benefit from and rely on Google but feel ickier about it year-by-year. (See also Dropbox.) 
GadgetGav
@lapcatsoftware @marcoarment Another extension I need to add then. None of the ones I currently use seem to be able to block it and the so-called setting in my actual Google account is worthless.
Adi 🐾
@marcoarment logged in users are far more valuable than logged out ones. From a commercial perspective, if a Google or Apple prompt makes more users sign in, that far out weighs the visual abruptness of it. If I'm not wrong, the websites have to do extra work to get these prompts working, so they clearly see the value.
Jan Biernacki
@marcoarment TripAdvisor has an extra UI element that they tack onto this, which is wild
Schamschula
@marcoarment This has been happening to me on eBay. I only sign in for bidding and transactions, not for browsing. 
bapt :smug:
@marcoarment You think they're doing this against their will? https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/offerings
Ryan Rampersad
@marcoarment I hate this sign in with Google widget, it always freaks me out that any random website can know who I am before I even sign into it just because I have a Google session. I don't know if it works like that but it's spooky either way.
Torstein
@marcoarment the web today is impossible to navigate without an ad blocker, dns blocker and annoyances / cookie notices blocker. 
Dave Diamond
@marcoarment Of all the shit in the industry, this is near the bottom of my gives any list. 
Jon
@marcoarment You're forgetting that the internet is now for regular folks that use this sign in option. The internet is being built around the convenience of collecting data and not interested in web design.
Jason Anthony Guy
@marcoarment I hate the ever loving f*ck of this. Something like 90% of sites I visit do this and I can’t for the life of me find a way to stop it directly. 
Ben Munson
@marcoarment the ubiquity of stuff like this - or “mobile” websites where images pop in out of nowhere, modals take over the screen, and overall performance is absolute dog poop - leads me to believe the answer is “no” 
Whiskers Kenbrook
@marcoarment DOJ is too busy chasing blue bubbles to worry about major overreach by Google
Iain MacLean
@marcoarment I'm seeing this all over the place at the moment. It's annoying because I don't use Google for any logins, and it just gets in the way with an extra action to get rid of it. Getting rid of it once doesn't make it go away forever, which would be my ideal. But I can imagine I'd be more annoyed if I were a designer to see it cluttering up my site!
MichaelLC
@marcoarment I hate it. My daughter keeps logging into Sheen using her Google account. Like they have enough of your info, didn't give them anymore. 
Sam Gross
@marcoarment the “users can log in easier and therefore buy more” business incentive far outweighs the “but our product should look nice” 
Svenja
@marcoarment thats also bothering me every Time. As a ScreenReaderUser I always have to close that damn Popup and the Site looses Focus wherever I was.  |
Gregory's Server
@marcoarment it’s an eyesore. I ended up adding a custom filter to uBlock to block it all