Every time I'm confronted with the "Sign-in with Google" modal, I have to wonder what UX will come up with next in their efforts to make the internet an ever more joyless and annoying place. In retrospect, we should have fought them on Material Design. Even unto the bitter end.
Personally I use uBlock to block Google in many other ways, and by adding this filter, the sign popup will be blocked, without telling Google about the sites you visit:
||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p
I don't really understand this mechanism. Are these sites all adding this in? How and why do I see this?
I have a Google account to use with my Android devices, but nearly everything is disabled, and I won't even buy apps because I won't give Google my credit card info. I don't use Google for anything else other than the app store.
@billyjoebowers@erik I'm pretty sure the sites are adding it themselves. Maybe it comes as part of the "sign in with Google" as can be seen on many websites.
Google has a huge interest for users to link their site logins with their Google account. Not only do Google track them more directly, but also they get signed into Chrome as well, if using their browser, which open yet another door of surveillance. Especially with their latest changes to browser level tracking.
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