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GNOME 50 Drops Google Drive Integration (For a Valid Reason) (itsfoss.com)
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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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GNOME 50 Drops Google Drive Integration (For a Valid Reason) (itsfoss.com)
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Almost two weeks ago, someone on GNOME's Discourse forum asked whether the missing Google Drive support in GNOME 50 was a bug or a deliberate decision.

GNOME developer Emmanuele Bassi replied, confirming that Drive was no longer supported.

He went on saying that libgdata, the library that coordinates communication between GNOME apps and Google's APIs, has gone without a maintainer for nearly four years. Furthermore, GVFS dropped its libgdata dependency about ten months ago, and GNOME Online Accounts now checks for that before offering the Files toggle under its Google provider settings at all.