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[Solved] Google is blocking Edge from using google drive
User Agents are getting deprecated, they can't be completely removed considering the amount of problems it will cause for older legacy websites.
Freezing them will prevent the browser version from updating, similar to this:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3764.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/75.0.131.0They will only be used to distinguish between mobile and desktop devices.
MicrosoftHotCakeX can you tell me exactly how you go to that error message? When I go to drive.google.com it works as expected with no warning signs.
-John
By the way it also happens in InPrivate mode. first it asks me to enter my email and pass, then 2step verification and then shows me that message.
- johnjansen
HotCakeX I have not been able to repro this, and it's really frustrating. Typically, what we see is that google will change a library somewhere internally that has a hard-coded string for UA string checking; when we find we are being blocked, we ping someone over there and they fix it.
Okay so looking at the flags I have enabled, I noticed I had one that had "user agent" in its title, I turned it off and the problem was solved.
could you please explain why it's causing that problem with Google drive?
Freeze User-Agent request header
Set the User-Agent request header to a static string that conforms to the current User-Agent string format but only reveals desktop vs Android and if the 'mobile' flag is set – Mac, Windows
#freeze-user-agentUser Agents are getting deprecated, they can't be completely removed considering the amount of problems it will cause for older legacy websites.
Freezing them will prevent the browser version from updating, similar to this:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3764.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/75.0.131.0They will only be used to distinguish between mobile and desktop devices.
