[pjc50]

Security for whom? Locking the user out of the software they want to use is not improving security for them.

[detaro]

That's only true if you assume the user is perfectly capable of evaluating the trustworthiness and quality of the software they want to use. It's understandable that that's not the assumption Google designs their security under. Yes, that sometimes somewhat sucks for us power users.

[kortilla]

That’s a pretty fake excuse IMO as long as the browser keeps rendering web pages that look like Google’s sign-in page.