[gentoo-dev] [News item review] Chromium access to Google services

[gentoo-dev] [News item review] Chromium access to Google services

[Stephan Hartmann]

Hi,

please review the news item inlined below. I would like to publish it 
tomorrow.

```
Title: Chromium access to Google services
Author: Stephan Hartmann <sultan@gentoo.org>
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.

[1] https://bit.ly/3bsxX8A
```

Best regards,

Stephan

Re: [gentoo-dev] [News item review] Chromium access to Google services

[Michał Górny]

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 <sultan@gentoo.org>
> 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