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NewsaHackO | 1 day ago

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|1 day ago

"steal" is semantically incorrect here.

sneak|1 day ago

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.

NewsaHackO|1 day ago

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.