this should be impossible unless you give it access to use your google credentials. you should be able to turn it off in your google security settings.
this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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This is why on the occasion a thread crosses a reddit post it gets opened incognito.
This is actually a google account feature called “auto signin”. If you go to google password manager and click on the settings button in the top right there should be an option called Auto Sign-in you can disable.
Anyway to disable the popup?
I have ublock configured to block it.
Teach me, master! HOW?! I NEED to know!
myaccount.google.com
Go here.
Go to the left side where it says Data & Privacy.
Scroll down to Data from apps and services you use
Under that is Third-party apps & services
Scroll down to Reddit
Click Delete all connections you have with Reddit
In the security page on Google's account site there is a card with the title "Your connections to third-party apps & services". Go there, click "See all connections" and click Reddit. From here you can remove access for Reddit and/or delete all connections between your Google account and Reddit.
Does that equate to actually deleting the Reddit account in question though? I assume only the connection is severed, but Reddit still retains the userdata from now a disconnected ghost account.
I'm 98% sure you can still log in again, it just invalidates the access token that Reddit has received from Google. The effect is that when you log in next time you end up at Google's authorization screen where you have to explicitly give Reddit access again.
It doesn't do anything except divorce the accounts.
Make sure your login credentials aren't saved in the browser and keep logged out of your Google account elsewhere. It would be easy to have all your cookies deleted when you close your browser.
Google has a function to limit or remove third party connections/accounts from your google account. You should be able to change that if you wanted to.
I’ve just never had this happen with any other service. Usually you are expected to click through something to log in with google. The fact that Reddit is looking at every google account your computer is logged into, and then forcibly logging in any that are associated feels like a serious violation of privacy.
The fact that Reddit is looking at every google account your computer is logged into, and then forcibly logging in any that are associated
That's not even possible. As somebody else pointed out, you're logging in unintentionally on your end, probably with the Google password manager.
The only time that account has ever been used on that computer had been to log into YouTube, once.
Definitely agreed. Then again, Reddit has stopped being user or privacy friendly for a long time now.
Doesn’t answer your question but might setup this on your work computer.
If you're on Firefox, take a look at the Containers extension. It helps keeping everything separated
Yep. The "always open in container tab" gets a little fidgety because Reddit uses a whole bunch of different domains (some of which it only flips to for an instant while redirecting elsewhere), so it takes a bit of work, but I've been able to successfully silo off Reddit, Xwitter, Meta, etc. into their own distinct containers that are independent of everything else I do.
This is the suggestion i had too