BleepingComputer recently published an article which says:
Google is now banning the popular Linux browsers named Konqueror, Falkon, and Qutebrowser from logging into Google services because they may not be secure.
[...] In tests conducted by BleepingComputer, we can confirm that we were unable to log in with Konqueror or Falkon on multiple machines. When attempting to do so, we were told to try a different browser as Konqueror or Falkon may not be secure.
[...] Even stranger, some users have reported that they could still login with Falkon [1, 2].
This has led people to offer a variety of theories for why this is happening including it being an A/B test being done by Google, related to the version of QtWebEngine installed, or maybe even an account setting such as 2FA being enabled.
Google does have discriminating tastes, does it not?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @01:31AM (2 children)
Time to start breaking all these megacorps up. It has been way too long that they have had power.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @01:36AM
Not going to happen, they already own Congress. You should have listened to Rupert Murdoch and stuck with MySpace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @04:09AM
Sure, we'll call them Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, etc.