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Ask HN: What's happening with Google accounts Friday?
7 points by HWR_14 on March 10, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I know something is happening with Google accounts entering a new level of security Friday. I don't know what is involved, and I've heard rumors this includes things like shutting down IMAP/POP3 access to GMail. Can someone explain, because my Googling skills, ironically, have failed and I feel like I'm hearing the results of 10 levels of signal corruption like through a game of telephone.

The only thing I'm fairly sure of is that it in some way relates to third-party apps. But I don't even know if that means people who use alternative email clients or apps who use Google OAuth2. I also heard that iPhone based accounts have a longer period of time, but that also seems possible.

Thanks.



I received a warning messages from Google a couple of days ago. GMail is no longer supporting password-based login or special privileges for third-party apps. If your email client wants to access your GMail account, it must support OAuth2, so that it can use Google's own authentication service. For example, Mozilla Thunderbird works just fine (I tested it); I read that the latest versions of MS Outlook are also fine. For me, this is a high motivation to get rid of my GMail accounts, and move to some real, privacy-friendly email provider.


Thank you. Does OAuth2 have any privacy implications itself, allowing Google to know more about your machine, or are you moving because of the trend in general?

And it seems that iPhones already defaulted to OAuth2 for new connections?




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