Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website

Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by GabeIsko on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:42PM (#34887877)

Isn't the login with google just an OAuth thing? Most of the time, websites that use OAuth still want me to make an account with them. It's like, what is the point? Are people just implementing OAuth and then later deciding that they would like to be a provider for some reason? It seems tied to capital investment based on some conversations I have had with startup engineers...

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by cm2187 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:52PM (#34888030)

Maybe, but google will create a modal that will overlay the website to notify me I can login to this website using google even though I am not even trying to login. Given that it is the same modal across very different websites, it has to be google being obnoxious.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by jackson1442 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:56PM (#34888089)

That's something developers explicitly enable, probably because it increases conversion.

It's bundled with the Sign in with Google SDK but defaults to off.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by cassepipe on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @06:09PM (#34889067)

Maybe used to be off by default? It started popping up on a third of the pages I visit recently. Don't they know that everyone hates or are annoyed by pop up?

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by Symbiote on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:20PM (#34889742)

I started using Container Tabs on Firefox to isolate my Google account from everything else because of this.

I found it fucking creepy that random websites would say "Hi Symbiote, log in with Google" with my real name.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by jackson1442 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @04:24PM (#34903007)

The "off by default" applies to developers, I worked with this API about a month and a half ago.

If you press the "X" button (_not_ just click off the popup) it will use an exponential backoff on your device.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by GabeIsko on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @07:18PM (#34976942)

Hmm, I must have something that prevents this. I generally turn off third party cookies...

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