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: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday December 14 2019, @06:31PM (1 child)
So why does it have to be open source? Are you going to audit the code? There have been bugs in major open source projects that have been around for a decade in plain sight because nobody can be bothered to examine the source. The "many eyes make all bugs shallow" is a myth, and a large part of that is because people who are writing code for free would rather scratch their own itch than clean up somebody elses mess.
And who could blame them?
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @07:42PM
ohh shut the fuck up you goddamn whore.