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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by marakv2 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:53PM (#25155862)
Yours is very edge case though, and the grandparent is rightly pointing out that the headline is a little misleading and comments are generally negative for a positive aspect.
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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:59PM (#25155906)
It's a very important edge case. Every new browser, by definition, starts out as a self-compiled project.

If this happened in the 90s, would we ever have had Mozilla? Would tabbed web browsers exist?

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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by wwweston on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:17PM (#25156019)
This.

If something can't be accessed by any standards-conforming client, then it isn't the web.

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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by freshhawk on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:54PM (#25156260)
If you think impersonating another browser's user-agent string for compatabililty reasons as a full fledged "real" browser is an edge case ...

You should remind yourself what the Chrome user-agent string actually is.

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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by anonymousab on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:21PM (#25156045)
>Yours is very edge case though

Not using google chrome is itself an edge case. That's kinda part-and-parcel with monopolistic predatory behaviors.

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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by cutitout on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:43PM (#25156196)
One man's edge case is another man's line in the sand.
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Re:Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedd... by deelowe on Thursday November 19, 2020 @08:18PM (#25156412)
Have you checked YOUR user agent? This is rediculous.
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