How to stop Google asking me to switch to Chrome while I'm using Safari

For any site this appears on (or anything else you want to hide), click the icon at the far left of the URL bar and choose to Hide Distracting Items. Click on the Chrome ad and it will disappear in a cloud of pixels. Click on anything else you want to hide on that site. When you're finished choosing distractions, click the Done button at the far right of the URL bar.

Each time you visit a different site, you will need to repeat the process for anything you want to hide. But in the future, those items will automatically removed from the page. When you revisit a site, you might see the Google/Chrome ad momentarily, but it will be hidden for you.

Can't say I'm motivated to do that either, not for this problem anyway. I'd prefer to just not use Google. Problem solved.

We can do nothing about (2) other than boycott the website. As for (3) the solution is what I wrote: just say "no" to Google.

🚫 Google. Simple.

What's not so simple is attempting to find a solution to this problem, since all you are likely to find with a Google search is how to modify some setting in your Google account so that the annoyances don't appear. But what if you have no Google account, don't want one, will never use one, etc? The answer again is the same: 🚫 Google.

You were right. I got Sonoma installed in a VM on my M4 Pro mini by using VirtualBuddy. The hide option doesn't exist in Safari under Sonoma.

Unfortunately, if you have a Gmail account, you can't stop these stupid popups from appearing. If you disable any linked apps in your Gmail settings, then you can't use Gmail and your email clients prompt you to connect again - which relinks the app(s) in your Gmail settings.

I don't mind though under Sequoia now that I can permanently hide this annoying popup where it appears on any sites I commonly visit.

No, there's nothing else.

BUT!, it is a per page thing. Not per site. If you (let's just randomly pick a URL) go to msnbc.com and hide a bunch of stuff, but then click on an article that loads a new page, then you have to separately hide items on that page.

Would be nice if it would hide similar items on all sub-pages, but it doesn't.

Don't use that website. That is a function of the website developer — in this case, Google. I doubt they are interested in removing it.

👍

I was under the impression that feature requires Sequoia though.

I think it's also part of Sonoma. I'd have to reinstall Sonoma on a new volume of our M2 mini to be sure.

You may have forgotten to click the Done button after hiding items. If you don't, Safari doesn't remember what you chose on the next session.