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Allow Google login Third Parties and Extensions

Pranjal Jumde edited this page Aug 28, 2020 · 10 revisions

Social Blocking

If you navigate to brave://settings/socialBlocking, you will see an option to enable Allow Google Login buttons on third party sites.

social-blocking

When this option is enabled: It adds a third-party cookie exception for accounts.google.com so sites using Login with Google can work correctly.

Extensions

If you navigate to brave://settings/extensions, you will see an option to enable Allow extensions to use chrome.identity api.

chrome-identity-for-extensions

When this option is enabled: It enables chrome.identity for extensions so extensions like Google Keep and Google Calendar can retrieve an OAuth token from google to authenticate users. The OAuth token can be used to retrieve personal information like email id, profile. You can read more about chrome.identity here: https://developer.chrome.com/apps/identity

If you are not logged into Google, these options have no effect for you.

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