Privacy: ‘Add account’ with Google should open in a separate web view or private window

Feature Requests
#1

I wanted to add an account for clients still on Google services, but when I clicked “Google” button from add accounts, the regular browser was opened up for sign-in purposes with special links that I couldn’t copy to a private window. Given how privacy-invasive Google is & how many exceptions Mozilla makes for letting Google have special privileges in the browser, I would expect this authentication flow be done entirely in an entirely separate web view or at least a private window so as to not keep Google data associated with primary browsing & whose tracking data can be completely wiped after finishing the app keys setup flow.

All I want is to sync specifically the calendar & mail from these accounts with no overlap with my browsing.

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#2

I would expect this authentication flow be done entirely in an entirely separate web view or at least a private window

You can achieve this.
Simply have the Browser open in “private mode” (i.e. have one private tab open and “in the front”) before clicking the Consent button which starts the OAuth flow.

This by the way is the same for any link that opens in the Browser. If it’s already in “private” mode, the link will be opened in a private tab. If not, not.

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#3

While technically correct, as a tab hoarder, this can be massively inconvenient :sweat_smile:

#4

This is also somewhat unknown to new comers. I do not expect rookies on SailfishOS in this time spot, still would be good if the dialog warned or instructed a user how to achieve this.

#5

… is pretty nice I think, and such information could be added to it. If someone made a PR to that effect.

#6

I think in general it would be good if links either defaulted to private mode or prompted me how I want to open them, the ‘trick’ with having the browser open in private mode is easily forgotten and even when not forgotten the aggresive oom handler may also still foil that if it kills the browser while you go into whatever app you are trying to open a link from.

The amount of times I open a page in normal mode purely because I forgot or the browser crashed/was killed is truly annoying.

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