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Welcome to Advisorator’s Tip of the Week, helping you learn something new from the tech world every Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you noticed more websites asking you to “Sign in with Google” lately? This can be convenient if you already have a Google account, but it also gives the company permission to track your behavior in more places. The pop-ups are also just plain annoying if you’d rather keep all your logins organized in a password manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why DuckDuckGo is now blocking Google’s sign-in prompts<\/a> in its mobile browser and desktop browser extensions<\/a>. The feature is enabled by default, so you needn’t do anything to hide Google’s pop-ups from view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo’s apps and browser extensions still force you to use the DuckDuckGo search engine. If that’s a problem, Google has its own hidden setting to turn off “Sign in with Google” prompts in any web browser, regardless of which search engine you use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just head to this page<\/a> while signed into your Google account, then scroll down to find the “Google Account sign-in prompts” toggle. You’ll still be able to sign into apps and sites with your Google account, but you won’t see any pushy pop-ups along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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