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This incredibly annoying Google

pop-up in Safari has never been resolved. I have read many answers on this and other sites and they are all useless. No matter how often you turn off the sign in prompt on Google, it still occurs. It's obvious that Google has chosen to override any attempt to stop it. So it is now up to Apple to prevent it in their software. But will they. Judging bye, the lack of response in the past!

PS - this forum also seems flawed, asks for my device, then insists on another topic, but doesn't include Safari ??


iMac 24″, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jul 16, 2023 4:33 AM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2023 5:27 AM

OK, if we want to be picky!

I used to use Safari as a web browser and the search engine is set to DuckDuck Go in settings at present. I was hoping to stay with Safari.

"You would find the same thing no matter what browser you use. " As browser, I am frequently turning to Brave, which does not seem to suffer from this pop-up on the same sites, and is also much better at reducing ads and junk. Several on-line newspapers that are plagued with advertising junk run much cleaner on Brave - yet I believe it is allied with Chrome in some way (I am not an IT expert, obviously)

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Jul 19, 2023 5:27 AM in response to Rob_3837

OK, if we want to be picky!

I used to use Safari as a web browser and the search engine is set to DuckDuck Go in settings at present. I was hoping to stay with Safari.

"You would find the same thing no matter what browser you use. " As browser, I am frequently turning to Brave, which does not seem to suffer from this pop-up on the same sites, and is also much better at reducing ads and junk. Several on-line newspapers that are plagued with advertising junk run much cleaner on Brave - yet I believe it is allied with Chrome in some way (I am not an IT expert, obviously)

Jul 18, 2023 8:35 AM in response to daverioja

For macOS


  1. Open Safari
  2. Open Safari's Settings (Command + ,) or (Click Safari in the upper right and click Settings...)
  3. Click Websites
  4. Scroll down on the left and click Pop-up Windows
  5. Where it says When visiting other websites, Select Block or Block and Notify



Make sure all the websites under Allow pop-up windows on the websites below: are also set to Block or Block and Notify. When visiting other websites is the default policy for pop-ups. Meaning any new websites or websites not in the list above will follow it. If you have Allow set for a website in the list above, pop-ups will continue.


This should stop it. However, if it doesn't this is the website and Google's fault as you stated above.


And this is exactly why I do not use Google products or software.

Jul 19, 2023 2:20 PM in response to daverioja

I do not have a Google account; I get the pop up if I use Google search, so they have a pop up on their own site. I get this whether I use Safari or Firefox - the browser does not matter. You need to address this with Google - there is no law that I know of that forbids your own pop up on your own site. I do not get it if I do not visit a Google site.

Jul 19, 2023 5:05 AM in response to RyFi1847

I think the thousands of people complaining about it understand it is not Apple. The clue is in the name - Google. But I am using an Apple browser. Why cant it block these Google pop-ups? I would much rather Apple concentrate their efforts on useful fixes for the deficiencies, rather than just inventing more emojis and colour schemes, and continually re-arranging things that already work okay.....

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