I know people here are very "Bitcoin only" but I was wondering if anyone had this issue. I was building a dapp that uses Metamask, and for the longest time it worked as I expected, didn't try to auto-connect. I could connect and disconnect at will via simple HTML buttons.

Now across different branches of my project, Metamask is automatically popping up every time the page is loaded. I'm using the npm package "@metamask/sdk-react" and it just started happening. I've tried incognito mode / clearing cookies / cache etc. , and setting sdk options flags to not check immediately. I'm at my wits end with this default behaviour. Was there some change in the chrome extension itself?