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But that password gives you restricted access, right? It can't be used, for example, to change your account password or view your search history, etc? At least
by encoderer 13y ago
But that password gives you restricted access, right? It can't be used, for example, to change your account password or view your search history, etc? At least that's how I understood it?
Obviously there's nothing Google can do about the fact that people want to access their email over things like imap that aren't built with Google 2-factor in mind.
- rogerbinns 13y agoI don't know which APIs get access to the passwords. In my case I would need app specific passwords for IMAP and XMAPP and that constitutes the majority of my interaction with Google.