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Former Member
4 years ago

How to remove annoying 1password auto-promotion ads ?

Hi,
I am fed up with 1passwords promotion ads each time I click on a username field.
It is written also larger than any thing else on the webpage !

It is really annoying, I do not want to see 1password written, just the icon on the right is enough, or give us the option to modify this.
It is completely inacceptable for all people like me sharing their screen via Teams/Zoom or any other video-conferencing tool
- People with few computer skills get lost by this pop-up as they do not have it on their computer
- As you need to reduce the screen size for the screen sharing, your 1password ad get even bigger, similarly to ads being louder when watching TV

I am a professional and I can not allow 1password to use my celebrity to put ads on the screen I am projecting (unless you are paying me, but honestly I am not interested). How to remove your ads? I have to quit 1password otherwise.
Regards


1Password Version: Lastest version as of 20211230
Extension Version: Lastest version as of 20211230
OS Version: Windows 10

18 Replies

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member

    "Clicking the icon in your browser toolbar, will automatically prompt you to use Windows Hello, eliminating the second click."
    Well, that's not very clever: you are eliminating 1 click and requesting people to move their mouse to the overside of the screen instead (and screens get bigger and bigger!). Both are bad design interface, eliminate your auto-promotion ad screen is the only solution. Furthermore it is not acceptable to have your auto-promotion screen being displayed live in front of an audience (unless you pay me, but I am not even interested by this). And for other people it is not acceptable as well given that your software is not free.

    When doing the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+X, I do not have the Windows Hello prompt but this:

    I am asked for the password even though I have Windows Hello. I should be asked for the fingerprint instead (for information, I have 1Password for Windows installed as well as 1Password for Chrome addon).

    Your "Ctrl+\" shortcut does not work on a French keyboard: your software is doing nothing when pressing it (I guess it is a bug with your software not supporting the French keyboard setup: you have to type 'Alt gr' to get the '\').

  • @Chriis

    You're right, disabling "Show autofill menu on field focus" will require that you click twice before being prompted to unlock. I'm definitely in favour of eliminating clicks in the process. Clicking the icon in your browser toolbar, will automatically prompt you to use Windows Hello, eliminating the second click.

    I'm curious, how would you feel about using a keyboard shortcut instead? Even with the inline menu disabled on field focus, using Ctrl+Shift+X will automatically prompt you to unlock using Windows Hello. If you have 1Password 8 for Windows installed, Ctrl+\ would also achieve the same thing, without requiring any clicks.

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member

    I prefer to have the least clicks, so this option On.
    Any way this option does not solve the problem. Here is what you get when this option is turned off:

    No improvement, there is still this annoying 1password auto-promotion ad when you need to login to have your password being filled out.

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member

    That doesn't turn off the autofill functionality, it just turns off the drop-down from showing automatically when you click a field. If you click the button or press the down arrow when on a field, the drop-down will show again. You can also press the button on the browser toolbar and auto fill from there.

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member

    This does not solve the problem, you are just telling to turn off autofill.
    Autofill is a must have feature !
    The problem is that you show this 1password auto-promotion ad.

  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member

    Hi there,

    I am sorry that you are seeing this pop-up regularly, the reason behind this is because 1Password has identified a field which it thinks you might want to fill in with a username/email/password etc... Because 1Password is not currently unlocked it is prompting you to unlock it so that it can fill in those fields for you.

    I can understand if you find this feature a bit intrusive. You can dismiss 1Password easily by pressing the ESC key on your keyboard, or you can turn that behaviour off completely if you'd like, here's how:

    1. Right click the 1Password icon in the toolbar of your browser
    2. Click Settings
    3. Toggle off 'Show autofill menu on field focus'.
  • Former Member's avatar
    Former Member

    They are annoying as hell. Like ads they promote the name, and as ads they are taking your precious screen real estate.

    For people giving conferences, it is Extremely annoying.
    Look at this, you talk about Office 365 AI automation possibilities and what you get is this when pointing to the first field : "A" means "To" in French.

    The interface was just asking for the email to send it, and 1password annoying popup get displayed in hundreds of people of my audience yesterday: unfortunately for you, not in a nice manner, to avoid people being confused with this popup, I had to explain that it is a password manager that is not working properly. There is no password entry on this webpage!!).

    Seriously I wonder how people can pay with precious screen real-estate being stolen and ads like that.

  • B9039's avatar
    B9039
    Occasional Contributor

    I definitely would not consider these ads -- its the user interface of the app. 1password isn't promoting their service; you already bought it.

    That said, thought I'd comment here just to offer UI feedback -- I agree; for future iterations I'd love to see the pop-up prompt go away, and just have the small icon serve the same function. The popup is slow on my system anyway, so its often delayed and slow to interact with.