Block those insanely annoying Google login popups
Tired of these "Sign in with Google" popups all over the place?
(Example from Stack Overflow))
This incredibly helpful toot on Mastodon had the surprisingly easy answer:
Open uBlock Origin
You are running the uBlock Origin plugin, right? And on a non-Chrome browser such as Firefox? Right?
Click on the little gears icon (tooltip: "Open the dashboard").
Add this filter line to My Filters
Click on the My Filters tab and paste the following into the text area:
||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p
Poof! No more Google sign in popups. So nice.
Enjoy
This works as of the document dates at the top of this page. If this needs updating at any point, please let me know.
(Aside: As near as I can tell, if you’re a Chrome user, you have to turn off the popups in your Google account. The popups don’t even seem to be normal page elements - you can’t select them with the browser dev tools or anything! Disgusting. But what did you expect?)