Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by madeofpalk 1113 days ago
Given how important a Google account can be, I think it's a pretty poor idea to enter your credentials into random third party software.

I don't believe you can authenticate Gmail in email clients with your account password any more - you must create an 'app specific password'.

1 comments

Well, as an app store, it pretty much has complete access to your degoogled phone, but (until recently) it defaulted to a pool of shared google burner accounts that were only used to download software.