Allow use of third-party cookies for legacy Google Sign-In
Social Blocking
If you navigate to herond://settings/socialBlocking
, you will see an option to enableAllow use of third-party cookies for legacy Google Sign-In
When this option is enabled: It adds a third-party cookie exception for accounts.google.com so sites usingLogin with Google
can work correctly.
Extensions
If you navigate to Herond://settings/extensions
, you will see an option to enableAllow Google login for extensions
When this option is enabled: It enables chrome.identity
for extensions so extensions can retrieve an OAuth token from Google to authenticate users. The OAuth token can be used to retrieve personal information like email id, profile. Please note that this is considered a 3rd party login. Extensions such as Google Keep may require a 1st party login (performed in Google Chrome) and may not work. 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 on you.