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posted by martyb on Friday December 13 2019, @11:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the what's-wrong-with-my-browser dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Saturday December 14 2019, @01:41AM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday December 14 2019, @01:41AM (#931903) Journal

    Instead of switching browsers, people should switch services to something other than Google, but that just starts the cycle all over again.The next service to become popular will invariably suffer the same fate. Guess we could just ride the waves, turn around and catch the next one.

    There is no reason to regulate a content provider as long as service provision remains open.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by shortscreen on Saturday December 14 2019, @03:51AM (1 child)

    by shortscreen (2252) on Saturday December 14 2019, @03:51AM (#931937) Journal

    Google isn't a content provider, they are a surveillance operation. I don't want a single thing from them but I still can't avoid their shit unless I actively block it all through technical means.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @02:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @02:39PM (#932045)

      lots of negative-balast money in googles war chest.
      u either join the team w/ all shenigans or remain unemployed.
      google is misery(tm).
      with all the insight they can basically win any "virtual war" with one machine gun and a million false flags...
      the polticians have "terrorists" and "climate change" and google has "security".
      the horrible thing is that this very medium here we use to complain is where google is king.
      google is probably where all the materialistic hacker with no ethics but mamons ethics have congregated with but one instrution set to respect/hack/abuse: the law.