From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC1761382C5 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 18:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BF0FE0885; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 18:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D710FE087E for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 18:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <027220f4b56a8c112c5f9fbde68cfd04079b02a0.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review] Chromium access to Google services From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 19:17:47 +0100 In-Reply-To: <5877f322-03e9-7a12-bb78-232f9b1c4ac5@googlemail.com> References: <5877f322-03e9-7a12-bb78-232f9b1c4ac5@googlemail.com> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 78b89fbe-d682-4fc5-b3dc-f8c8d5a8d38f X-Archives-Hash: 94e7744960516ffbf4029964ce942a52 On Mon, 2021-03-08 at 17:36 +0100, Stephan Hartmann wrote: > Hi, > > please review the news item inlined below. I would like to publish it > tomorrow. > > ``` > Title: Chromium access to Google services > Author: Stephan Hartmann > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2021-03-09 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: www-client/chromium > > Starting March 15th, 2021 Google Chrome Team will restrict access to > Google APIs and services that are reserved for Google use only. This > means that users are no longer able to login into their Google Accounts > which disables access to for example Chrome Sync. > > As a consequence we have to remove Client ID and secret from all > www-client/chromium ebuilds. This change has already been done for > =www-client/chromium-89.0.4389.82. Other versions will be updated > shortly. > > If you need one of the Google use only APIs, then you either have to > switch to www-client/google-chrome{-beta,-unstable} or setup your own > keys [1]. However, the latter is only intended for development. It would be nice to explain a bit more what this entitles and how to make it work, or link to a nice guide. > [1] https://bit.ly/3bsxX8A Please don't make news items depend on third party URL shorteners. This just obfuscates what you're linking here and making them less reliable. -- Best regards, Michał Górny