Re: reaching gmail in basic html?

where is somewhere?
I may need to post the article here for folks to understand.
Google has started using a proprietary edition of JavaScript for tracking 
purposes that they are branding  as security.



On Wed, 6 Nov 2019, dan d. wrote:

>
> I read somewher elinks and the like use a subset of java only with inherent limited java functionality.
> That is likely what google is seeing when querying a client request.
>
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> Actually, this is not correct.
>> I have gotten this duplicated by google accessibility  staff.  In fact
>> Google  stated in an article recently that  since only crooks turn off
>> JavaScript, they will not allow anyone  to sign into their gmail account
>> without JavaScript.
>> When I requested answers for accessibility reasons, one staff member
>> duplicated the issue using elinks, and told me that it was because Google
>> did  not consider elinks  to use the "right" kind of JavaScript.
>> Later, a different staff member who normally uses links reported that they
>> too   could no longer reach basic html using the browser.
>> This is not a client issue, as I am going directly to  google for my gmail
>> reading.
>> Karen
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Mouse wrote:
>>
>>>> The Thunderbird story is interesting because prior to now I could use
>>>> elinks and links, which both can incorporate JavaScript to reach my
>>>> research gmail account.
>>>
>>>> They no longer allow it though because google claims it is not the
>>>> right kind of JavaScript.  Generally speaking I too would love
>>>> learning how this is done.
>>>
>>> This has to depend on something in your client.  Google cannot, after
>>> all, observe anything about your client except its network behaviour;
>>> something is provoking different network behaviour - or, possibly, your
>>> client's blind trust in the JS Google is sending it is causing it to
>>> refuse you locally without exhibiting _any_ network behaviour.
>>>
>>> My guess would be that your JS implementation includes some kind of
>>> "this is what sort of implementation I am" string, which Google is
>>> asking it to send back - or, more stupidly but in my estimation a
>>> little more likely, is checking somewhere in the JS code it sends to
>>> you.  Learning details (without help from Google, which help I doubt
>>> would be forthcoming) would probably require inspecting the JS it sends
>>> and/or snooping the cleartext of the communication.  Neither one sounds
>>> trivial to me, though.
>>>
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