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Chromium maintainer for Fedora has disabled Sync and Google Sign-In support right now (bodhi.fedoraproject.org)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google has announced that it is cutting off access to the Sync and "other Google Exclusive" APIs from all builds except Google Chrome.

[...] They're not closing a security hole, they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome.

Or to put it bluntly, they do not want you to access their Google API functionality without using proprietary software (Google Chrome). There is no good reason for Google to do this, other than to force people to use Chrome.

More info (Google's shitty explanation/justification): https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-packagers/c/SG6jnsP4pWM (Mirror)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Well one thing is certain, not doing anything about it (Like the simple workaround below) will mean death to the 32 bit Chromim based platforms, for which there is a huge user base. So… Good news for Firefox, yes?

This reminded me of a conclusion I reached in:

“Google wants to do away with third-party cookies and replace it with something worse”

https://lemmy.ml/post/48381

if you’re in Chrome you’ll be signed in to Chrome across all your devices I would assume. wouldn’t it be convenient if Google doesn’t fund mozilla in 2022 and the only safe browsers left are Chrome and Safari.

I need to think about how they might be related