alt Hacker NewsNo Google account has been banned for this. People just keep spreading this lie because no one agrees that they have the right to steal the OAuth token.
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sneak • yesterday at 5:29 PM
It's their OAuth token, it's not being stolen. It's just being copied from one place on their computer to another. This is no different than a competing browser importing your localStorage and cookies from Chrome on first launch.
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"steal" is semantically incorrect here.