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DeGoogle - expelling Google from Canada one device at a time.

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Remove all future 'use your google account to sign into [this site]' popups from your web-browsing experience

Link to Mastodon post: https://mas.to/@markwyner/114941092519598133
Credit: https://mas.to/@markwyner

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[–] Peter_Arbeitsloser@feddit.org 8 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure those filters are already in one of the annoyances or social media lists that are coming with ublock by default. But you have to enable them manually in the dashboard.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

You gotta look reeeeaall carefully.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear I tried this once and it didn’t stick. Maybe I did it wrong?

[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

The Mastodon post linked to in the post body has screenshots. Maybe give it another try. I'm not a dev and had never before messed with uBlock Origin settings, but I got it. And I validated that it worked right after by heading over to StackExchange and not seeing those pesky pop-ups