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user9517

10:07

Is there any way to stop the incredibly annoying Log in with Google pop out ? If I wanted to log in I would

Journeyman Geek

afraid not short of adblock

TPTB seem to think its a great idea and would improve engagement :D

user9517

So logging in == engagement ?

Journeyman Geek

I mean, some of the decision makers wouldn't understand engagement if it dressed in a skimpy outfit and tapdanced the dance of 96 veils on their skull... I think :D

A: Every SE site that I don't have an account for started prompting me for Google login

I don't know who is initiating the prompt and if the company could have done something to prevent this behavior (it may be an unavoidable "feature" of the Google client plug-in). Yet I am pretty confident they knew about this beforehand since the original "Upcoming changes to sign-up flow on the ...

or just keep dismissing it

user9517

I do keep dismissing nit but it keeps comming back

I don't even have a google account and I'm not going to make one

Journeyman Geek

supposedly the length keeps increasing. I think adblock's the 'correct' solution here :D

user9517

10:20

I think you are correct

Journeyman Geek

in your case - where I think potential engagement is left the building, went out of the state, left the country, and took a rocket ship out of the solar system...

very much so :D

user9517

10:43

I was engaged briefly last week when someone told me my 13 year old answer to a question specifically about CentOS didn't work on (unversioned) Debian

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Journeyman Geek

13:51

lol

Journeyman Geek

14:01

I'm pretty used to the SF old guard using nothing but centos (I've no idea what the cool kids use now - it seems a split between alma and rocky)

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user9517

18:28

I use Alma and Fedora

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