[qutebrowser] Log in to Google Account using qutebrowser

Denis Khizhniak 4denis.kh at gmail.com
Wed Dec 4 12:39:44 CET 2019


Hi Javier,

The custom setting for the user agent seems to work. I tried typing "show
my user agent" in Google and it showed me the one I've set via config.py
file.
So, I have no idea how Google checks the actual browser and whether it's
possible to fool him.

ср, 4 дек. 2019 г. в 12:36, Denis Khizhniak <4denis.kh at gmail.com>:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> And thank you for replying. I tried to turn on the access for untrusted
> applications but it didn't work for me as well.
>
>
> ср, 4 дек. 2019 г. в 03:16, Kevin Ashley <Kevin.Ashley at practicemax.com>:
>
>> The following links may be of use:
>>
>> 1 - Comment from google security about preventing MITM
>>
>> https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-against-man-in-middle.html
>>
>> 2 - Reddit thread indicating someone else resolved this by adjusting
>> their google account's "less secure apps" security setting:
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/cyb1wi/cant_sign_into_google/
>>
>> 3 - Documentation of the "less secure apps" security setting on your
>> google account:
>> https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: qutebrowser <qutebrowser-bounces at lists.qutebrowser.org> On Behalf
>> Of Javier Ayres
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 18:26
>> To: Denis Khizhniak <4denis.kh at gmail.com>
>> Cc: qutebrowser <qutebrowser at lists.qutebrowser.org>
>> Subject: Re: [qutebrowser] Log in to Google Account using qutebrowser
>>
>> I think you did everything right, it just seems that this check is not
>> based on the user agent.
>>
>> If you want to make sure: find one of those pages that tell you your user
>> agent, add a line in your config.py with the page's domain, visit it and
>> check that it returns the user agent you wrote.
>>
>> 2019-12-03 15:35 GMT-03:00, Denis Khizhniak <4denis.kh at gmail.com>:
>> > HI Javier,
>> >
>> > Thank you for the tip. I'm new to qutebrowser and may have done
>> > something wrong.
>> > I've created the config.py file. Page *qute://version* says that is
>> > has been loaded.
>> > I have copied your lines and added one for '*.google.com', but with no
>> > success.
>> >
>> > Could you please point me in the right direction?
>> >
>> > вт, 3 дек. 2019 г. в 17:48, Javier Ayres <javierayres at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >> Could this be solved with custom user agents? I have the following
>> >> lines in my config.py:
>> >>
>> >> ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 ' \ '(KHTML,
>> >> like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.128 Safari/537.36'
>> >> config.set('content.headers.user_agent', ua, '*.whatsapp.com')
>> >> config.set('content.headers.user_agent', ua, '*.slack.com')
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 12:40 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hey Denis,
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 12:58:23PM +0100, Denis Khizhniak wrote:
>> >>> > I would like to switch to qutebrowser from Chromium but I can't
>> >>> > log in
>> >>> to
>> >>> > my Google account.
>> >>> > Every time I try I receive this message:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Couldn't sign you in
>> >>> > You are trying to sign in from a browser or app that doesn't allow
>> >>> > us to keep your account secure.
>> >>> > Try using a different browser. Learn more
>> >>> > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__support.goog
>> >>> > le.com_accounts_answer_7675428-3Fhl-3Den&d=DwIFaQ&c=CGMgyzKYjHNQIm
>> >>> > UEHNe2B8lDgzoGYXpYQgjl1xrjsdI&r=Zv4I5vLgKKLdEfoJPpseR6EJ8k97HqLh3U
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>> >>> > smfPven-KFz2rdKbq37LyLG88yzTVLXzXcc&e= >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Could you please assist with this?
>> >>> > I have already tried to change *headers.user_agent* with no luck.
>> >>> > Do you have any workarounds?
>> >>>
>> >>> This is a change by Google, targetting applications which aren't
>> >>> browsers but ask the user to sign in to their Google Account:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__security.google
>> >>> blog.com_2019_04_better-2Dprotection-2Dagainst-2Dman-2Din-2Dmiddle.h
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>> >>>
>> >>> I've heard about it before:
>> >>>
>> >>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.reddit.com_
>> >>> r_qutebrowser_comments_cyb1wi_cant-5Fsign-5Finto-5Fgoogle_&d=DwIFaQ&
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>> >>> but it seems to come and go, and I've never seen it with my own
>> >>> account so far.
>> >>>
>> >>> Not much qutebrowser can do I guess - you might want to contact
>> >>> Google in some way, but... good luck with that.
>> >>>
>> >>> Florian
>> >>>
>> >>> --
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>> >>
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best regards,
>> > Denis Khizhniak
>> >
>>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Denis Khizhniak
>


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Best regards,
Denis Khizhniak
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