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Stop Google Sign-In
01/18/2025
How the heck do you actually stop this prompt from coming up on every website that you land on?
In another example of why something needs to be done about Google and the cabal of big tech in general, the setting to turn this off seems to have gone deeper and deeper into Google Chrome over time.
A search on how to do this turns up information that seems to pertaint to older versions of Chrome or otherwise leads to dead ends and bad advice. No doubt the dodging takes advantage of the ambiguity that arises from searching using keywords that might pertain to all manner and mean of "signing in" activity types.
It turns out that the concept is known to Google as something called a "Federated Identity" prompt and, sure, if you Google that precise phraseology, you're gold. But who the F would figure that?
They obviously don't want people finding something that people will clearly find annoying and clearly try to turn off.
Here's How to Do It
It's January 2025 and now you can do the following to stop these on the Chrome for Windows desktop (if you prefer, you can watch my YouTube post of this process instead):
- Open Chrome Settings
- Click those three dots at upper right in Chrome
- Click "Settings" lower down the menu tongue
- Click "Privacy and Security"
- Click "Site Settings"
- This is a Google trick. I suspect that by placing the setting under this title, they aim to discourage people from finding it because you want these notifications to not appear on any site, not just "the" site that "Site Setting" implies. Rest assured though that as of this writing at least, that the change you make here will actually apply to all sites.
- Scroll down and find and click "Third Party Sign In"
- Click "Block sign-in prompts from identity services"
Click image for larger version.
The settings go into effect the moment you make the selection so there's no "Save" button or anything to process. You've done it.
A faster way to reach the pertinent settings area for those of you comfortable with directly working with the URL bar is to enter the following there:
- chrome://settings/content/
federatedIdentityApi
All this advice applies to Chrome on the Windows desktop (so, assuming you're using a laptop or desktop PC). It will probably apply to Chrome on any platform, but probably not Android -- where I am not sure the issue is even a problem.
By Dave for Personal Blog.
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The Console Culture
12/22/2024
The latest Microsoft commercial hints that the company (finally?) gets it.
I like Microsoft's latest commercial because it nods to the power of the personal computer in an era when I suspected that even Microsoft itself had forgetten about it.
The spot recognizes that somewhere somehow certain people -- and enough of them to prove the thriving future of -- are going to "require a computer" to produce their output. Whether artistic or otherwise.
Smartphones as a primary digital interface are here to stay but only for the most prosaic, which is likely most people. Even the creatives and the producers with their continued preferential reliance and use of PC devices will of course still have and use them.
The point though is that there still exists and hopefully will always exist the console class. And it may become accidentally elitist as they continue to maintain a culture and communication of one between them.
I hodge-podged together something I call the New York City People Fusion platform for communication among such people. Under the proverbial hood it's not fancy. It's just basic PHP and MySQL written quickly with a direction to reach than a market to sell to or a scale to meet, same as anything I do. But it's a philosophy I'm pushing that desktop computing is still a thing and the people that engage in it are both legacy and the enriched future.
That Microsoft seems to have finally stood back and come to realize that its own place in the market today connects to its PC foundations, validates something I've only been able to reflect as a suspicion until now.
By Dave for Personal Blog.
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Brian Thompson Should Not Have Been the Target
12/06/2024
The shooting death of Brian Thompson has provided a framework for the open condemnation of our predominantly for-profit health care system. But I feel this condemnation is misappropriated if not obviously cruel.
Brian Thompson wasn't denying anyone getting healthy or healed. In fact he probably cherished the health and well being of anyone as very much you and I do.
The real outrage isn't that United Healthcare is a thing that denies coverage in a contract with policyholders. From their perspective that's just business as usual wherein drawing a line in coverage is always controversial. You can pretty much say that about the inconvenient parameters of any business contract.
Health insurance companies don't deny anyone procedures once the lines and thresholds are hit. You want anesthesia? Fine, have it. All Anthem Blue Cross is saying is *you* pay for it.
That is, if you have thousands of dollars laying around -- of course.
What's actually mortifying is that you likely can't pay for it.
In colossal effect what the composite reality of all health care insurers are actually telling you to do when denying coverage, is to get rich.
Get rich.
Think about that.
Consider that this isn't the expectation underlying the morality of just United Healthcare or Anthem Blue Crosss' decisions to deny, deflect, and defend. And also consider that when the insinuated assertion to "get rich" doesn't mean just get fiscally well situated or to just rely on fair wages for a fair time's work.
The message, literally and unambiguously, is to get filthy stinking rich, period.
And there you have it.
This is what our society has evolved to. In all areas, not just health care. Whether it be to live securely free of destabilizing crime and drama, to weather the foils of unemployment or employment, to eat healthy, to exhibit as an artist, to trill in song to massive audiences, to pontificate, to raise your children and to protect them, and even to defend your reputation or to establish one in the first place - everything - is now subject to the expectation that you "get rich" to do it.
I know we can point to bulks of people who do afford healthcare, do art, do sing, and do raise great and secure families. But only at the behest of misery on a larger scale and only by playing to the gamemasters. Some people become or embrace sociopaths - they join the United Healthcares of the world or at least admire and emulate them well enough to self-insulate. Some decay over time at the stress of, dying internally. Some rot into criminality at more basil levels. In ignorance, negative in, negative out, after all.
Whatever the cope and whatever the resilience, pound for pound, we as a people have terrible yield.
It could be a lot lot better with just a little more wisdom. Be outraged we don't evolve better, not that because we haven't, that lo and behold, we have United Healthcare, not to mention people credibly doing their jobs like Brian Thompson. A very real soul probably being reminded of that as you read these very words.
By laws of both scarcity and sheer probability everyone can't "get rich". If three bullets need to go into something, it's the universal expectation that everyone can and should, to live free secure and prosperous lives. Rich is a rotten threshold for basic living.
By Dave for Personal Blog.
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