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Browservice: Browse the modern web on historical browsers
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Add instructions to sign into Google accounts #113

Open LagLifeYT opened 11 months ago

LagLifeYT commented 11 months ago

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 commented 10 months ago

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 commented 10 months ago

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

LagLifeYT commented 10 months ago

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.