Is "Use your Google Account to sign in to..." Mac-specific?

Still a website thing. Apple and Google are independent and separate companies. Apple has no way of pushing Google sign ins and no real need to inclination to do so. It the website, and Google's generally invasive quality.

If you are logged in to a Google website (google.com, gmail, YouTube etc..) prior to this so an active session is available and the cookie exists for the login, websites that use Google as a login option will present the option to use it to log in with one Tap or click.

It happens on many, many websites that use it.

You can log out of Google.com or other google websites like Youtube in the browser to try to stop these popups.

Still not a Mac thing, and will likely happen on Windows PC to that have an active google login session in the current web browser.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12849458?hl=en#zippy=%2Chow-do-i-disable-the-sign-in-with-google-sign-in-prompts

betaneptune wrote:

It's the one on the right that is new!!! While it's rather only mildly annoying, I'd like to know what it comes from. And why it's on FF and Safari, but doesn't show up on Brave or Opera.

The reason is that Brave incorporates content blockers natively. Not sure about Opera but it probably has the same feature.

You can probably find an add-on for Firefox that will work to block it.

Apple does not want to bite the hand that feeds them ~ $20 billion a year and (again, probably) is reluctant to incorporate such a feature. For Safari we need to use Distraction Control: Use Distraction Control in Safari to hide items on a webpage - Apple Support, or boycott the websites in question. Google is frankly desperate to install their products on your Macs (and everything else for that matter), and is resorting to increasingly desperate measures toward that end.

"Use your Google Account" is insultingly presumptuous. As MartinR explained it's a website API they can choose to incorporate, or not. Since websites get paid to incorporate it (indirectly, but paid nonetheless) they are not about to change that practice unless it becomes too uncomfortable for them.

It's not a Mac thing, or an Apple thing or a Safari thing. And it happens just as much if not more on Windows pcs no matter what some windows users say. Because it's a website thing.

"Use your Google Account to sign in" is by Google and is used by many, many websites. Ditto with sign-in "using your Facebook account." They call it a 'convenience' that you can sign in using your Google or Facebook account instead of an account specific to the website. You have to decide for yourself if it's a convenience or not. IMHO it's an invitation to have your privacy invaded by Google or Facebook.

betaneptune wrote:

See my reply to MartinR. I am talking about something new. Yes, the login (or "Sign-in") box has had this Google/Facebook/Apple thing in the actual login box for years. Look at the screenshots. This is something new. It is blocked by Brave, but not by FF or Safari. Look below. The one on the left is what I think you're describing. That's been there for years. I'm not talking about that. The one on the right is new. Notice that there's no place to type in your username and password. It's different. See my reply to MartinR for more details.

It may be new to you but it's not new. If you tap "Continue," you'll be able to select a Google account and log in using those credentials. And I get the same thing on my Windows computer using both Chrome and Edge. I also get a very similar option if I use Chrome on my Mac. It's a little different because I'm already signed into my personal Google account in Chrome so it doesn't offer me the choice between my two accounts.

It may have started occurring because you've recently added a Google account to System Settings>Internet Accounts.

I have the same issue on some websites on my Mac, using Safari (macOS Sequoia 15.6.1.)

You could use the new "Hide Items" functionality of Safari to hide that box for that particular website: Use Distraction Control in Safari to hide items on a webpage - Apple Support. You'd need to repeat this for other websites you navigate to but at some point you will have done it for all the websites you visit regularly.

betaneptune wrote:

I've been seeing what I think you are describing for years, and that's part of the login screen. That's fine. I can log in with my regular username and ignore the use Apple/Google/Facebook part. This is different. It pops up when I do not have an account. And it persists to the 2nd screen. It is not a regular part of the website's home screen. It is not a login box. I can click something else on the page, and it's still there. I can't move it, though. After the third click, it's finally gone.

OK, so it's something new. How about if you give us the URLs for a few sites where you encounter this, so we can look into it further.

The layout of the supposed pop-up appears to be the same as what I see daily on many websites ... but the behavior you are reporting is different.

If you want to pursue things, clear your browser caches (all cookies & site data) and then methodically try different browsers & blockers to see if any combination makes the pop up go away. Be sure to clear caches after every try.

In my own case I use Firefox with Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin. I still get the Google sign-in block in the upper right of the website's home page but when I click Stay Signed Out it goes away.

I tried weather.com. Just hit the "X" in the upper right corner of the Google sign-in frame and it goes away.

As I said, it's not a traditional pop-up, it's embedded in the website's functionality.

The posts that I see were [Edited by Moderator] appear to have included some PII. That's intended to prevent you from becoming inundated with spam.

The Apple Support Communities Use Agreement cautions us not to reveal personal information (B.11). Whether that was an actual email address or not is unknown but the Moderators would have no way to determine that, so it was probably redacted in an abundance of caution.

Even things like serial numbers shouldn't be posted — they can be exploited to associate your ownership with a device. Again, it's an abundance of caution.

By the way I examined the page source of the affected webpage. The "Sign in with Google" API is very much integrated into the webpage. Google describes it here: https://privacysandbox.google.com/cookies/fedcm.

That's just an introduction. It is very intentional. After studying the subject in depth some months ago a rhetorical question kept occurring to me — "whose web page is it anyway". The answer became abundantly clear: It is not yours. It is not even the webpage developer's, nor the vendor's, and it certainly isn't Apple's. By incorporating that API, the webpage effectively becomes Google's.

"All your website are belong to us" — Google

I suspect the Google/Facebook sign-in "pop ups" are coded into websites as part of their front pages and are not what we usually think of as pop ups.

Example:weather(dot)com

In Safari's Web Inspector it's listed as an iframe.

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_iframe.asp