HTML5 Errors browser outdated

A browse to youtube and some videos will not play because the browser is outdated.

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Also when trying to login to google, it causes this error after entering my email address

The compiler is using

  • CEF version 83.3.12

My userAgent reads as follows
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.97 Safari/537.36

Any ideas how to overcome this?

As of June 1st 2020 Google have restrictied the ability for users to login from apps built on most independent browser frameworks, and despite being based on Chromium, sadly that includes CEF - meaning the only way to log in to any platform Google owns, such as Youtube, Adwords, Google Analytics etc, it would seem you have to use a mainstream browser such as Chrome,Edge or Firefox. See here: https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/google-to-block-sign-in-attempts-from-embedded-browsers and: https://magpcss.org/ceforum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16717&sid=f388d3c302c386f9fc1d08f246f04c15&start=10

Yes, that’s the reason and it could be problematic to a lot of developers (and not only ExeOutput ones).

So basically Google created the most popular browser of the world and only Google is allowed to have truly locked down and secure logins tied to their browser.

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