I was following the rclone guide on creating a client_id for Google Drive ( Google drive ) and made it to point 9: Go to "Audience" and then click "PUBLISH APP" button and confirm. However, in my case, this button is greyed out, and it asks to go back to the Branding page. [image] All starred …

@ncw @LeoW I confirm behavior. Same here. I was able to register previously a ClientID but publishing, starting two (one?) days ago, following guidance, is not a possibility any more, at least for a just a recently created google account - might be that is relevant as could be just a cool off per…

I will try creating a new client id this weekend on not a new account but one that doesn't currently have one.

[image] caspertone2003: might be that is relevant as could be just a cool off period Just in case, my account is many years old, but I've never had OAuth Client IDs on it.

its not a cool off period, google just made app homepage + privacy policy url required to publish, even for a personal one user app. thats why the button is greyed out until branding is filled in. testing mode still works but the refresh token dies after 7 days so you end up reauthing constantly, a…

Thanks @nite_route Have some questions/doubts. Would you/anyone know/believe/estimate if ... how/if Google does further checks to just checking that a policy URL works? that privacy disclosure solution would be working for some time? Google will react introducing stronger requirements for publish…

Examples of @nite_route provided hint https://gist.github.com/sjmiles/101703e7b9dc97411efc0828114532a4 privacy.md This OAuth client is used solely by its owner for personal rclone backups of their own Google Drive. No third-party data is collected, stored, or shared. …

Thanks for your help everyone, the docs have been updated and the website will change with the next release :slight_smile:

tried this, there was no way i could pass the "prove homepage verification" step, so went ahead with creating a github page site at myusername.github.io and added a "rcloneeet" page, added a privacy policy href to this page, all verification steps passed except the homepage verification, the linked …

Just followed the latest iteration of instructions and I was able to successfully create a client ID and secret and load into a new remote and it works so thanks.

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