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Re:Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less s... by detaro on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:31PM (#25173249)
It's OAuth. The application can launch a normal browser for the OAuth flow and have the user complete it.
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Re:Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less s... by bxk1 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:33PM (#25173260)
For plenty of applications the whole purpose is not to run "a normal browser" and possibly not even have it installed.
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Re:Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less s... by detaro on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:57PM (#25173381)
You can also use a browser on a different device if your thing can't run a browser itself. OAuth covers a large space of options.
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Re:Guidance to developers affected by effort to block less s... by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @08:18PM (#25174035)
They can spit out a url for you to copy into a normal browser, then.
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