The accuracy of the "SyncBackPro with Google services" article

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Which is here:
https://help.2brightsparks.com/support/ ... 3000682830

It references a Googleblog article that does confirm Oct 3. And a newer one here re-confirms:
https://groups.google.com/g/omegaup-sop ... xfow?pli=1

But I've seen no warnings, and v8 continues to work with Google.

The article mentions OAUTH v2 being needed for desktop apps. Are we sure v8/v9 don't have that?

[Kostas]

Hi,

As the KB article says at the end, your existing profiles may continue working but authorizing with a Google account will fail unless you upgrade to V10.

Authorization occurs when creating a new profile that may be using another Google account or if the user decides to manually re-authorize an existing Google account in case Google rejects an existing issued token used by SyncBackPro.

So your profiles may still be running fine for now but sooner or later the inevitable will happen.

Thanks,
Kostas

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Oh, I see, I didn't realize that the authorization they were talking about was only at the beginning and thought this was more like normal deprecations, where they just pull the whole plug on a certain date (like Google did over the summer for a particular kind of email authentication). I guess the warning they're talking about would only occur then, too. I wonder if authorization ever really happens again absent a conscious choice to switch accounts or take some other action.

All told, I think this is going to add up to a lot of people being surprised (beyond Syncback, I mean).