Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number

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  • email-oauth2-proxy

    An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method.

  • FairEmail

    Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

    • The Fair Email FAQ [1] states that it supports Google's OAuth, so why don't you authenticate with that?

    "OAuth for Gmail is supported via the quick setup wizard. The Android account manager will be used to fetch and refresh OAuth tokens for selected on-device accounts. OAuth for non on-device accounts is not supported because Google requires a yearly security audit ($15,000 to $75,000) for this. You can read more about this here [2]."

    1. https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail/blob/master/FAQ.md#user-co...

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  • syncthing-android

    Syncthing-Fork - A Syncthing Wrapper for Android. (by Catfriend1)

    • https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/blob/main/RE...

    When I set it all up, I think the fork had much better behaviour around folder permissions for non-root users, I'm not sure if that's true any more.

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