Help with Google's beggy sign-in/location permission request
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I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask for help. I'm using the Vivaldi android browser. I've tried searching for a remedy to this situation for a few months now. Google keeps popping up "sign-in with Google" and to "turn on location for better results." I don't want to do either of those. However, my searching only gives a certain kind of answers. These answers are to sign-in to Google and turn off this behavior (when I sign out again, do the notifications stay turned off?) or answers for iPhone, browsers that are not Vivaldi, intermixed PC/android solutions, and technical solutions that are far beyond my understanding. There are also many references to settings that no longer exist on Vivaldi for android or are only on the PC browser.
I apologize if this question has been asked a million times. Can someone tell me in plain directions how to get Google to stop doing these things? If all anyone can confirm is that it's impossible, that will help too because I can call off searching for now.
Thank you for your generous help in advance.
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@BLESMOLS
Hi, if this popup appears one of the Google services is used in Vivaldi, the Google calendar or mail for example.
If Vivaldi update/upgrade Google ask to verify these services again.
If you don't use or not want to use such services disable the mail/calendar client in Settings > General at bottom.
If you want to use it you have to finish the verification process again.
I am not sure if a Google extension can cause this, do you use one?Cheers, mib
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@BLESMOLS said in Help with Google's beggy sign-in/location permission request:
"turn on location for better results."
IMO Location should be disabled in the device, not per app. This is easily done in the OS device settings. Location can also be disabled globally in the browser under Settings > Content Settings > Site Settings in Vivaldi for Android.
https://help.vivaldi.com/android/android-appearance/site-settings-in-vivaldi-on-android/However, this won't stop some sites detecting you have disabled Location and asking you to enable it. It's the site doing this and there's no avoiding it. Google tends to ask occasionally to enable Location.
"sign-in with Google"
This is called "Third-party Sign-in" and means a site embeds code from Google (or another sign-in provider like Facebook etc) that detects you are signed in to their service.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14264742This can be disabled in Settings > Content Settings > Site Settings in Vivaldi for Android, under "Content".
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@mib2berlin Thank you for replying. I'm sorry it took me so long. We had a family emergency. I think you're talking about the PC version of the browser. I'm using Android. There's no setting like this in that version.
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@Pathduck Thank you for your reply. I'm sorry it took me so long. We had a family emergency. Location is off on both the device and in Vivaldi. I appreciate you letting me know that it's possible it's Google just being Google and there's nothing to be done about that.
At least knowing that lets me quit looking for a setting that may not exist. -
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@mib2berlin I'm very sorry. Totally my bad. I was looking in the wrong place. I found the setting and I had it set to blocked. Thank you for your patience with me.
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@BLESMOLS Just to clarify on the Location part:
Disabling location in the device or setting it to Blocked in the browser will stop sites asking you to Allow location.
It will NOT however stop Google from asking you the "turn on location for better results." Google detects you have location turned off and will occasionally ask you to enable it. It happens once in a while and there's nothing to do about it, apart from stop using Google that is.
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@Pathduck Thank you for following up with me. I'll bear that in mind. I'm grateful for your help.
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