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GNOME 50 Drops Google Drive Integration (For a Valid Reason) (itsfoss.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.world

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libgdata, the library that coordinates communication between GNOME apps and Google's APIs, has gone without a maintainer for nearly four years. [...] It was the only remaining reason libsoup2 was still present in the GNOME stack, at a time when libsoup2 was already being phased out ahead of the GNOME 44 release. Currently, Debian's security tracker lists many open CVEs against it, covering everything from HTTP request smuggling to authentication flaws.

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Good fuck google

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 52 points 7 months ago

Good. Drop all those companies.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

I use pcloud and it has lifetime plans that go on sale quite often. A few hundred got me a terabyte for life.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 point 7 months ago

So it's via lutris, then?

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz -1 points 7 months ago

I feel this change, however valid, will only hurt the end user, and consequently Linux adoption by the common man

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[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago

I appreciate that the author suggests that Google take on maintenance of the Drive integration. I'd rather volunteers work on supporting open platforms and protocols, which seems to be what they're doing.

Which reminds me: I need to get a Syncthing server set up.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 8 points 7 months ago

Oh damn. I was at a shitty startup once which uses macs/windows with google everything and additional external services. Worked through thunderbird and drive also through KDE's KIO.

While I wouldnt want to maintain these things (similar to exchange support in thunderbird or DRM support in Firefox) they are extremely important for harm reduction.