diff --git a/cmd/pinniped/main.go b/cmd/pinniped/main.go
index 96213ec8..6b5a4611 100644
--- a/cmd/pinniped/main.go
+++ b/cmd/pinniped/main.go
@@ -3,7 +3,20 @@
 
 package main
 
-import "go.pinniped.dev/cmd/pinniped/cmd"
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/pkg/browser"
+
+	"go.pinniped.dev/cmd/pinniped/cmd"
+)
+
+//nolint: gochecknoinits
+func init() {
+	// browsers like chrome like to write to our std out which breaks our JSON ExecCredential output
+	// thus we redirect the browser's std out to our std err
+	browser.Stdout = os.Stderr
+}
 
 func main() {
 	cmd.Execute()