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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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