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 <[email protected]> > 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
