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Add instructions to sign into Google accounts #113

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LagLifeYT opened this issue Dec 30, 2023 · 4 comments
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Add instructions to sign into Google accounts #113

LagLifeYT opened this issue Dec 30, 2023 · 4 comments

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@LagLifeYT
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It is actually still possible to sign into Google accounts with Browservice, as I discovered a few weeks ago.

Steps:

  1. Set the user agent to "https://accounts.google.com" (I do not know why this works), and specify a data dir
  2. Sign into Google (only tested with an account with 2FA on)
  3. Launch Browservice with a normal user agent (tested with a Chrome on Linux UA), with the data dir
@NockTwelve
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It is actually still possible to sign into Google accounts with Browservice, as I discovered a few weeks ago.

Steps:

  1. Set the user agent to "https://accounts.google.com" (I do not know why this works), and specify a data dir
  2. Sign into Google (only tested with an account with 2FA on)
  3. Launch Browservice with a normal user agent (tested with a Chrome on Linux UA), with the data dir

And not only that (at least in my case) pages load very snappy while using the user agent of https://accounts.google.com although Google loads in an older version other pages run very snappy like YouTube, I tested that on IE so it may be different for other browsers but this Is just my experience.

@ttalvitie
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This is great, thanks. Now added this to README. How did you discover this?

@LagLifeYT
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LagLifeYT commented Jan 7, 2024

This is great, thanks. Now added this to README. How did you discover this?

I was testing different user agents for all sorts of things to see which one might let me sign into Google and accidentally pasted in “https://accounts.google.com”.

When it let me sign in I figured the user agent was going to mess with some sites so I specified a data directory and signed in, and set a normal user agent. That seemed to make YouTube Studio work at least so I left it at that.

I’ve also found at least one other instance of somebody discovering this, and it working.

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