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

I've been getting this pop-up whenever I visit a site that I could create an account on, but haven't.

Windows users (at least those who saw what I posted on another Q&A website) haven't seen it. It appears that those who responded use Windows.


It appears on some browsers, but not others. All have pop-ups blocked. (Can I mention the competing browsers?) This pops up on Safari and one other browser. It doesn't pop up on a third.


Can anyone give a clue? Is this something limited to Apple-land?


Thanks!


Oh, here's the offending pop-up:


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Posted on Aug 20, 2025 5:42 PM

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Posted on Aug 21, 2025 9:36 AM

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

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Aug 27, 2025 7:37 AM in response to John Galt

Yes, I did my redactions with and without the red border. I'm just happy when the thing works.

I did find one where I might have missed an email address. I might have also missed one where it said "Use your Google account to sign to [blah-blah]"


Do I need to redact website names and URLs? I see weather.com made it through on someone else's post.


BTW, is there some way to sort things here by thread?



Aug 27, 2025 7:45 AM in response to betaneptune

betaneptune wrote:

Yes, I did my redactions with and without the red border. I'm just happy when the thing works.
I did find one where I might have missed an email address. I might have also missed one where it said "Use your Google account to sign to [blah-blah]"

Do I need to redact website names and URLs? I see weather.com made it through on someone else's post.

BTW, is there some way to sort things here by thread?


You don't need to redact publicly available web addresses like weather.com.


You can sort an individual thread by going to the bottom right under your original reply, just below the top-rated answer. You'll see "Sort by." I suggest that you choose either oldest or newest. I prefer oldest, but either of the chronological options is a better choice than rank or upvotes unless you're looking for something specific.


You can also click on your avatar at the upper right of the page, tap on Preferences, scroll to the bottom of the page, and select the default sort order for everything you look at.

Aug 27, 2025 10:09 AM in response to betaneptune

Yes, I did my redactions with and without the red border. I'm just happy when the thing works.

I did find one where I might have missed an email address. I might have also missed one where it said "Use your Google account to sign to [blah-blah]"


Do I need to redact website names and URLs? I see weather.com made it through on someone else's post.


BTW, is there some way to sort things here by thread? Or "sub-thread", if that's a better term?



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