No Google account has been banned for this. People just keep spreading this lie because no one agrees that they have the right to steal the OAuth token.

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joquarky an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"steal" is semantically incorrect here.

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sneak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's their OAuth token, it's not being stolen. It's just being copied from one place on their computer to another. This is no different than a competing browser importing your localStorage and cookies from Chrome on first launch.

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NewsaHackO 2 hours ago | parent [-]

No, the OAuth token is supposed to be used solely with the context of a first-party app only. Clearly, if you need to extract the key by reverse engineering or set up a proxy to spoof requests to a service, you're doing something shady.

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sneak an hour ago | parent [-]

> No, the OAuth token is supposed to be used solely with the context of a first-party app only.

The web doesn't work like that. The operators of google.com saying you must only use Chrome to load it is a ridiculous concept. It's not spoofing to use your own access credentials on your own computer to access your own account on an HTTP API.

	▲	NewsaHackO an hour ago \| parent [-]
		>The web doesn't work like that. The operators of google.com saying you must only use Chrome to load it is a ridiculous concept. I have no idea what you are talking about. Chrome? Are you sure you are replying to the right thread?