Google Locks Down Chromium Access

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google is locking down public (unauthenticated) access to chromium-adjacent resources, no clue why, but this may potentially be very bad for anyone who works with chromium. earlier today i couldn't pull chromium source via gsync from googlesource due to timeouts and rate limit errors, only managed to do it after several retries. tarball source releases have been broken for weeks, so cloning is the only way to get fresh chromium source code right now. Chromium Code Search source.chromium.org Please log in with Google to browse and search the Chromium codebase. Über Google anmelden

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A screenshot of a post complaining that Google is restricting unauthenticated access to Chromium-related resources. The attached Chromium Code Search page asks the user to log in with Google, turning a technical access problem into an angry joke about Google making open-source development harder. It is shared as a reaction to frustrating platform restrictions and broken developer tooling.

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