Help needed. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED while trying to sign in with Google.

Hi girls and boys and everything in between :) I'm quite new here, joined out of curiosity and now, 3 days later, im trying to build my first AI agent to help me create blogposts for my website.

As I am not sure if AI is for me or if I would have the time to invest in learning it all, I dont want to invest into the n8n subscription yet, maybe after playing around at least for a month or something... So after quick youtube research I succeded to set up my n8n seflhosted with the free Render plan and now its up and running.

And now to the point, while I am trying to connect my google account into n8n I get an error message. I have the Client ID and secret right, i get the Sign in with Google button, I press it, select the proper google account and check all the boxes and then I get ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. (please, see screenshots attached).

Im using a mac with no firewall. My technical skills are at the best "user-level", I have no experience whatsoever but i can follow instructions :)))

So any help will be hightly appretiated. Thank you very much

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