Google’s opaque and painful Gmail OAuth verification

How it will affect independent developers and kill innovation

Google, bruised from years of privacy scandals and keen to avoid its own Cambridge Analytica incident, announced last year that any project touching user data in Gmail would now require verification. However, because Aura doesn’t store any user data on its own servers I was able to avoid the security audit. With a userbase numbering 1.4 billion users, Gmail has become a platform in its own right.

Source: aura.app