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Your device is probably pwned. But go ahead and blame Google. I love how people just ignore these warnings.

• pdpi 5y ago
  “Your browser might not be secure” is a worthless error message. If you have a strong reason to believe this is the case, you should tell me. If you don’t tell me, I’m going to assume you don’t have a good reason, and you’re just scaremongering.
  • vntok 5y ago
    They are telling you.
    • krageon 5y ago
      They're not telling you what's wrong, just that you're bad for arbitrary reasons that ultimately will end up boiling down to "we don't trust that you try to preserve your own privacy".
• idop 5y ago
  It's probably uBlock or some extension that blocks Google's tracking.
• shakna 5y ago
  That message is generally when your user agent doesn't match Google's list of allowed browsers. It has nothing at all to do with how secure the browser on the end user's computer actually is.
  • jeffbee 5y ago
    I sincerely doubt it has anything to do with a whitelist of user agents. It is probably triggered by a failure to evaluate the botguard program, which indicates that your browser may be under the control of malware.
    • shakna 5y ago
      No, Google are pretty specific that they have a whitelist of user agents for their properties. [0] [0] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6557?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=%2Cbrowser-isnt-supported%2Cjavascript-error%2Ccookie-error https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6557?hl=en&co=GENIE.P...
      • jeffbee 5y ago
        There's a huge difference between "supported" and "whitelisted".
        • shakna 5y ago
          If your browser's user agent lies outside the "supported" list, you will be presented with a page telling you that your browser is insecure. It's a whitelist. I... Am unsure why you think this is not the case. You can test it. Or look at any of the many articles after Google made the change.
          • jeffbee 5y ago
            I set my UA to "Bob Dobbs 42.69". It still loads, and it doesn't say "your browser may not be secure" which is what this thread is actually about.
            • shakna 5y ago
              A freshly installed Firefox, with a useragent of "Bob Dobbs 42.69" yields the "Your browser may not be secure" page, for myself. Both within and without a VM. So, yes, I think I'm speaking to what the thread is actually about.
• BoxOfRain 5y ago
  How are we supposed to trust 'your browser might not be secure' when Google benefits directly from hobbling everything that isn't Chrome?
• tomrod 5y ago
  Every device in a walled garden is pwned, is it not?