Does this mean email aliasing is gmail is going to break? I think you need less secure sign in for that to work.
Less secure apps and your Google Account
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#22Great. There's nothing I hate more than an app or game asking to login with Google and redirecting me to a non Google domain. Of course I have a separate email for those cases
I've got great distrust for these pop-up "sign in with Google" or whichever SSO provider you have you find in a lot of apps (or even Apple's accounts thing on macos); how can I verify it is in fact Google and not a 3rd party lookalike?
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#23I had to turn this on to transfer emails from Workspace to a free Gmail account with imapsync.
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#24I suggest all HN readers use this opportunity to stop using Google accounts, if they haven't done so already. Potential benefits: * Better privacy (on many/most alternatives); Google will no longer read your email, store it for use by themselves and their partners, and perhaps pass a copy along to the NSA as Edward Snowden has revealed happens. * Less exposure to manipulative ads, and lower finesse of manipulation du…
What are some alternatives?
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#25They are not saying App Passwords are going away.
Re: Less secure apps and your Google Account
#26I suggest all HN readers use this opportunity to stop using Google accounts, if they haven't done so already. Potential benefits: * Better privacy (on many/most alternatives); Google will no longer read your email, store it for use by themselves and their partners, and perhaps pass a copy along to the NSA as Edward Snowden has revealed happens. * Less exposure to manipulative ads, and lower finesse of manipulation du…
What are the leading recommendations these days? is it still mainly protonmail?
I think the features I value most are U2F support and a usable but simple web interface (Gmail's web interface has actually gotten consistency worse over the last decade so I guess that sets a low bar).
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#27I've noticed gmail randomly blocks Firefox these days under the pretence of "your browser may not be secure" (i.e it doesn't persist through page refreshes), similar to how they try to make you do a captcha unless you refresh the page... I seem to have less and less control over where and how I am allowed to sign in (even thought I'm using a U2F key), and as a result I'm definitely getting pushed closer to the thresh…
Have never experienced that since switching back to Firefox after years on various Chromium browsers.
Developer Edition, on Windows fwiw.
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#28Does this mean no more app tokens, e.g. to retrieve IMAP mail?
No, you can still use IMAP with Thunderbird for example but you login to google account and Thunderbird get a token similar to how all OAuth works, what is blocked is using email/passowrd directly with your IMAP client.
What about clients which don't support that, like Google's "send mail as" feature? I suppose that won't be supported anymore?
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#29I suggest all HN readers use this opportunity to stop using Google accounts, if they haven't done so already. Potential benefits: * Better privacy (on many/most alternatives); Google will no longer read your email, store it for use by themselves and their partners, and perhaps pass a copy along to the NSA as Edward Snowden has revealed happens. * Less exposure to manipulative ads, and lower finesse of manipulation du…
What are some alternatives?
The only thing I used my google account for was email. There are many good alternatives – I myself have been happy with mailbox.org for years.
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#30This kills gnus/mu through Emacs, right?