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Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised
by lucb1e 1y ago
Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Of all places where I'd sign in with a Google account... holy heck, I was very surprised they chose to let Google do that nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit (since you visit in private tab, it's a fresh session every time)
Even on reddit it annoys the heck out of me and I was very surprised they let this third party ruin the experience (when they don't even do it as first party). What if they all start doing it, facebook and github and the lot, you need to click away four banners? But maybe not enough people have privacy extensions installed and reddit can just track them forever and thus store a one-time dismissal. Anyone here in the know whether this doesn't show a measurable drop in returning users?
- justsomehnguy 1y agoIt sells. But yes, I chuckled the first two time but it quickly got boring. And BTW this clearly indicates what the people who are responsible for this behaviour not only don't bother with this 'use case' but also never use the 'porn mode' themselves.
- w4rh4wk5 1y agoOf course! That's why I even added this to my uBlock filter list on mobile: accounts.google.com/gsi/client
- hammock 1y agoHow do you get ublock to work in chrome after the update? I tried a fix I found here but it resets every time I restart the browser
- _nickwhite 1y agoUse ungoogled-chromium (or Firefox).
- godelski 1y ago> or Firefox Or just use Firefox because even using chromium is empowering Google to keep playing these games. Maybe you have a problem with Firefox (most people won't notice the difference) but is that problem worse that the problem you have with Google?
- dwedge 1y agoWhat if my problem is that it's funded by Google to the tune of a billion a year and spent a large part of the last two years trying to reposition itself as an ad company?
- bornfreddy 1y agoSure, but let's keep things in perspective... "it's funded by Google" is still a lesser evil than "it is Google".
- dwedge 1y agoThat's true, but pretending to be the good guy underdog while really being Google's voice rubs me the wrong way
- godelski 1y agoSo when options are 1) Google, an ad company 2) Firefox, a company who Google gives money to Your choice is #1, because #2 is funded by #1? I'm honestly having a difficult time following this logic
- dwedge 1y ago2. Should be "Firefox, an ad company sponsored by Google to keep anti-monopoly at bay" My choice at that point comes down to which is the better browser rather than some moral support for one company over the other. It also rubs me the wrong way that Mozilla is pretending to be the good guy underdog. In an ideal world, and hopefully soon, there would be a real third choice but for now they're the same picture.
- eviks 1y agoHave you tried https://github.com/r58Playz/uBlock-mv3 https://github.com/r58Playz/uBlock-mv3
- matznerd 1y agogo to chrome://flags , follow these instructions https://youtu.be/q7dnkGdndNo?t=220 https://youtu.be/q7dnkGdndNo?t=220 then load extension in developer mode
- sunaookami 1y agoChrome 139 removes all Manifest v2 code so this will no longer work with it starting... tomorrow https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate... https://chromestatus.com/roadmap https://chromestatus.com/roadmap
- bananadonkey 1y ago> https://chromestatus.com/roadmap https://chromestatus.com/roadmap I clicked the link and got the Sign in with Google prompt... on Firefox. Why would I ever need to sign in to that website?!
- motorest 1y ago> How do you get ublock to work in chrome after the update? Why does anyone keep using Chrome if they care the slightest about privacy? You're using a browser owned by a company that sells online ads. What do you expect?
- hammock 1y agoThe last thing I remember about Firefox was that it was a memory hog. Maybe this has changed in recent years
- w4rh4wk5 1y agoI don't. I use Firefox, on desktop and mobile. (Sorry, I should have mentioned this since OP is Chrome related.)
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- nosianu 1y agoThere is the "Lite" version by the same author written for the current Chrome. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh?hl=en https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/... Works fine for me. It has a lot less options, truly "Lite", but most people will be fine. Whatever Google might do that will make this extension worthless, we will se, for now, it seems to be working. (It's funny that the Chrome Web Store lists this extension as "Featured".) By the way, on Android, I replaced Firefox with Microsoft's Edge. It supports uBlock Origin (no "Lite" in the name, not sure what that means, I did not check the details of how much it supports since it just works as it is). It is significantly faster than Firefox (again, Android). It plays all videos, while Firefox just showed an "unsupported" placeholder for videos on some niche sex video site I happened to accidentally visit.
- inversetelecine 1y agoSupposedly, filter lists only get updated when the extension is updated with uBO-lite. Google could just start delaying approval for these adblockers and their filter lists would become out of date fairly quick.
- eadmund 1y agoFirefox exists, and it’s pretty awesome. I’m typing this in Firefox now. I use Firefox on my phone. Mozilla is from all appearances a pretty terrible organisation, but their browser is good.
- lucumo 1y agoI did too, until uBO got blocked. So I had to reevaluate. Chrome now has a site setting that blocks this crap. For the browser-based popup at least. That's the one that pops up in the top-right and is not part of the DOM of the page. You can go directly to chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi to set "Block sign-in prompts from identity services" as the default behaviour for sites. You can also set exceptions for some sites if you want that. If you need to go there manually, it is: 1. Settings 2. Privacy and security (in the menu on the left) 3. Site settings (at the bottom) 4. Expand Additional content settings (under Content) 5. Third-party sign-in
- reddalo 1y ago> until uBO got blocked If you're on Android, give Firefox a try. It works well and it has full support for uBlock Origin.
- bornfreddy 1y agoAlso Reader Mode is awesome. And translating pages locally is great.
- lucumo 1y agoI tried for a few months, but sync kept failing. And with uBO Lite I got nearly everything I used uBO for.
- venusenvy47 1y agoI've never added a custom filter. Do they sync to all my Firefox browsers that have uBO installed?
- inversetelecine 1y agohttps://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage
- efreak 1y agoIf only that worked on mobile Firefox, which doesn't support extension sync APIs. Other add-ons (eg tampermonkey) got use cloud storage accounts (Google Drive and/or Dropbox) for this, despite not being as useful on mobile devices (the UI for tampermonkey specifically is terrible on a phone)
- eastbound 1y agoI’m super happy Google’s login with my name, appears on PornHub, especially since I’m using a separate browser, Firefox mobile, for this only, never used it for anything else, never logged in. Luckily Firefox mobile gives websites access to something on my phone about my identity. But I’m happy it does this. Because it exposes how much websites know about us. It’s like Facebook showing face recognition in 2015. It’s creepy but it reminds you constantly how creepy it is.
- BobbyTables2 1y agoJust imagine how many sites collect all this info and DONT personalize what’s shown to you… Of course, one day AI will probably automatically do realtime editing of porn videos so they will be customized for your name/location/job/background/interests.
- slumberlust 1y agoAre you telling me there are single ladies in my area who want to play backpack battles!?
- StrandedKitty 1y agoThere's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy. I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be beneficial for both parties.
- sneak 1y ago…until the user loses access to their Google account with no recourse and you have no secondary way to authenticate them.
- tomschwiha 1y agoI personally have my personal email as Google account email, so even when I lose my access to google I am still in control of my domain (and email).
- edoceo 1y agoAnd still couldn't sign-in-with-google. On an email linked that way, so no password recovery. Would likely be a new account - with bonus "that address is already in use" problem.
- tomschwiha 1y agoI agree, there may be an additional step necessary if the page doesn't handle this case already, but this way you can still prove (more easily) ownership to the support.
- skybrian 1y agoAlso true if I use my gmail address. I'll confess that for many websites I don't care that much. Depending on a password manager would be better, though. Semi-related anecdote: I lost my Reddit account to a cryptocurrency spammer due to a weak password and had to create another, so I lost my preferred username. Annoying but not a huge deal. (Reddit did freeze the old account but wouldn't give it back.)
- varenc 1y agoIt does disrupt the user experience and clobber a site's own home page, but associating a persistent identity to a user is VERY valuable to sites, and normal sign up flows have a lot of friction. They probably figured it's worth the cost if it gets more users to login/create accounts. Its presence despite the drawbacks indicates a lot of people use this feature.
- citizenpaul 1y ago> associating a persistent identity to a user is VERY valuable My fear is that this is the real "AI" endgame. Flood the world with bots then become the defacto authority of "real" users.
- immibis 1y agoWasn't this literally Reddit's game plan?
- citizenpaul 1y agoI don't think so. Far as I can remember Reddit decided to lock down their site and start monetizing user data. They don't and never have had any sort of widely used authentication like googles SSO and Email combo. Far as I can see Meta and Google are the main "Real users" players at least in the wider internet ad markets. Actual Identity companies have almost no presence outside of banking/finance/gov from what I see.
- sans_souse 1y agothat's the 300-million dollar button and it's not going anywhere
- hammock 1y agoI find it like to pop up in an incognito Google search. Not all the time. Just when one searches the more questionable things
- johnnyanmac 1y agoI lived alone for years and don't even bother with incognito. But if I cared, I on Firefox can make a separate container for that stuff and login that way. I get a burner account and Google (at least from PH) can't see anything other than other adult sites I put in that container.
- TechDebtDevin 1y agoTry visiting pornhub from Texas :)
- lucb1e 1y agoI'm not that interested in visiting the USA right now gotta be honest
- socalgal2 1y agoI 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.
- bravesoul2 1y agoI wouldn't visit it without tails at this point. But I go for the better option than tails. Just dont visit it!
- afavour 1y ago> 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?
- socalgal2 1y agoAs I said above, the feature is super useful to people who want to "login with Google" so plenty of people with common sense would "use the feature". The common sense part is it's common sense, at least to the HN crowd, to not visit a site like pornhub using your main profile, or so I would have expected.
- patrickscoleman 1y agotheir "private" is not private. about a month ago, i searched for some health-related stuff in a chrome incognito window and then immediately afterwards got related sponsored product ads on amazon in a logged in normal window.
- skydhash 1y agoI was trying Chrome on a work computer (because why not, I'm only doing work stuff on it). That incognito (but not really) mode made me download Firefox in an hurry.
- saintfire 1y agoHow does Firefox improve on icognito? I haven't used chrome in a long time but as far as I was aware they do the same thing: wipe session data on close.
- naniwaduni 1y ago"Private" and "incognito" mode are fundamentally misnamed. They provide almost no real privacy wrt counterparties over the network, just to other people using the same computer after you. Amnesiac mode, if you will.
- dawnerd 1y agoThey also recently must have changed the container, I noticed my adblock wasn't catching it anymore. What I find annoying though is its often slow to load and conveniently the sign in button is right where you'd click
- godelski 1y ago> nearly-fullscreen popup on their site upon every visit I did a bunch of trial and error awhile back instead of reading the docs but you can add a rule to ublock that will look something like this. Hopefully someone comments a better filter than this mess lol ||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select?client_id=* Fuck all these banners... Fuck all these cookie popups... I just want to browse Seriously, how the fuck do people raw dog the web? It's unbearable. When are people going to move away from Chrome(ium)?
- dijit 1y ago> Seriously, how the fuck do people raw dog the web? It's unbearable. I agree, I got it to “work for me” by only using the sites I like, but there are times where I stray from my beaten path because I’m searching for something and it’s awful. I don’t think I would have fallen in love with computers if I was raised with the web being what it currently is. I wonder if this is a driver of ChatGPT as a search engine, everything else is so bafflingly bad and all people really want is information.
- chrismcb 1y agoDo I find it intrusive? Yes, it doesn't matter what site it is on.
- lucb1e 1y agoAgree it's intrusive on all sites, but that is like the last place where I want to make mental space for "hey btw big brother is tracking you here too ;)" reminder popups
- motorest 1y ago> Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? It's extremely intrusive, regardless of which site it shows up. It's a reminder that the likes of Google are collecting all the personal information they can get from you, and building up a personal profile that covers all aspects of your life, not only your online presence.
- meindnoch 1y ago>Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? Porn sites are a testament that no amount of popups, ads, clickjacking, etc. can deter users from your site if your product is compelling enough.
- lucb1e 1y agoThere's a reason pornhub and reddit won over other sites where there was more shit in your face (not meant to be read literally)
- cm2187 1y agoAnd google’s “do as I say, not as I do”. Doesn’t their search engine penalise websites with popups/overlays as it is meant to be user hostile?
- lucb1e 1y agoI might consider switching back to Google Search if there were a "put any good results without tracking wall up top" setting
- tpoacher 1y ago"I have no idea what you're talking about and I have never experienced this myself and I don't even know this website you speak of." (obligatory comment just in case the wife is watching ...)
- RamblingCTO 1y agoThat's why I blocked it everywhere. Pornhub was the last straw for me as well: https://andinfinity.eu/post/2025-07-14-blocking-google-sso-popups/ https://andinfinity.eu/post/2025-07-14-blocking-google-sso-p... works quite well. Using Orion and ublock origin.
- al_borland 1y agoI find it intrusive on every single site it’s on. Every time I look at how to get rid of it, I’m pointed to a setting in my Google account to stop it, and it does absolutely nothing. As far as I can tell, I’m more sensitive to this stuff than normal people, but I’m less likely to return to a site that annoys me like this. I’m also less likely to use Google as a result of them being behind this. While it’s not the only reason I use Kagi, it’s certainly an item in the pro/con list. The same goes for all of Google’s pop-ups and nudges to switch to Chrome. It’s infuriating. Everyone not using Chrome knows Chrome exists and are choosing not to use it. They really need to stop with the heavy handed push and respect user defaults.
- fHr 1y agoI do and that is why I remain neutral/buy on their stock, Meta and Google are bad bad bad actors with to much power in the web.
- melagonster 1y agoSometimes reddit will automatically log-in for you :(
- abustamam 1y agoReminds me of a tweet I saw a long time ago that went something like "PornHub lets you share videos on Google+. That's disgusting! I don't want people to know I use Google+!" That said, it is quite invasive.
- lucb1e 1y ago(I laughed out loud.) Hey! I liked Google+ >:( Met some cool people on that site and I guess my thought was that anything is better than a facebook monopoly on social media and this has an actual chance
- abustamam 1y agoI actually did like Google+ as well. I used Google Buzz (I believe it was the precursor to Google+) because Twitter seemed weird, and then it just made sense for me to use Google+ because I was already invested in the ecosystem. And it just seemed so much cozier than FB.