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On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 17:36 +0100, Stephan Hartmann wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> please review the news item inlined below. I would like to publish it |
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> tomorrow. |
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> ``` |
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> Title: Chromium access to Google services |
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> Author: Stephan Hartmann <sultan@g.o> |
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> Content-Type: text/plain |
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> Posted: 2021-03-09 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: www-client/chromium |
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> Starting March 15th, 2021 Google Chrome Team will restrict access to |
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> Google APIs and services that are reserved for Google use only. This |
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> means that users are no longer able to login into their Google Accounts |
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> which disables access to for example Chrome Sync. |
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> As a consequence we have to remove Client ID and secret from all |
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> www-client/chromium ebuilds. This change has already been done for |
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> =www-client/chromium-89.0.4389.82. Other versions will be updated |
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> shortly. |
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> If you need one of the Google use only APIs, then you either have to |
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> switch to www-client/google-chrome{-beta,-unstable} or setup your own |
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> keys [1]. However, the latter is only intended for development. |
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It would be nice to explain a bit more what this entitles and how to |
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make it work, or link to a nice guide. |
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> [1] https://bit.ly/3bsxX8A |
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Please don't make news items depend on third party URL shorteners. This |
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just obfuscates what you're linking here and making them less reliable. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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