Hi, I thought any Chromium, as distinct from Chrome, users might be interested in this news announcement from the Arch Linux distribution as other distributions are planning a similar change and it provides background information. Some Chromium functionality will stop working.
-- Cheers, Ralph. ------- Forwarded Message Subject: [arch-announce] Chromium losing Sync support in early March To: arch-annou...@archlinux.org Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 07:56:41 -0000 Message-ID: <161233900172.416.976710395890266...@archlinux.org> Google has announced that they are going to block everything but Chrome from accessing certain Google features (like Chrome sync) starting on March 15. This decision by Google is going to affect Arch's `chromium` package a bit earlier, on March 2, when Chromium 89 gets released. https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html We know for sure that **data syncing** will stop working (passwords, bookmarks, etc.). Other features such as **geolocation** or **enhanced spell check** might continue to function for a bit longer. Extensions integrating with **Google Drive** might misbehave and LibreOffice will lose access to documents stored there. Other distros such as openSUSE and Fedora have already removed the soon-to-be-limited API keys from their Chromium 88 packages. Fedora's advisory provides a great deal of perspective on this and I also found this Hackaday post to be quite informative. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-48866282e5 https://hackaday.com/2021/01/26/whats-the-deal-with-chromium-on-linux-google-at-odds-with-package-maintainers/ URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/chromium-losing-sync-support-in-early-march/ _______________________________________________ arch-announce mailing list arch-annou...@lists.archlinux.org https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-announce ------- End of Forwarded Message -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
