> Google is now banning the popular Linux browsers named Konqueror, Falkon, and Qutebrowser from logging into Google services because they may not be secure.
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> [...] a browser may be blocked from signing in for the following reasons:
> - Don’t support JavaScript or have Javascript turned off.
So Google says that not only is JavaScript not harmful, it actually __improves__ your security.
This has to be the hottest take I've seen this year.
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> [...] a browser may be blocked from signing in for the following reasons:
> - Don’t support JavaScript or have Javascript turned off.
So Google says that not only is JavaScript not harmful, it actually __improves__ your security.
This has to be the hottest take I've seen this year.
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@Feuerfuchs To be fair the browsers Google arguably has banned have a very small userbase. Qutebrowser, for example, uses a relatively uncommon web engine (QtWebEngine, or an old QtWebKit version with security vulnerabilities).
It's not cool that Google restricts access to their websites to only certain browsers, but it isn't like they're banning Firefox or making it slower (like what they do with YouTube). It's probably the fact that making cross-platform webapps across engines is really hard.
@L1Cafe @Feuerfuchs it's one thing to not actively support something (as in not fixing bugs specific to an obscure browser), and another to actively block them out