Can't login to any google services

Ayespy

@standpipe K. It's a mystery what's triggering it. I have run it up the flagpole to the developers. So far, no one can replicate it. But with this other data we have collected they might know the reason right off the top of their heads. Won't know until tomorrow.

Ayespy

@standpipe Got some feedback from the developers. This appears to be related to a family of bugs they are working on related to the new Chromium "feature" of automatically logging you in to your Google ACCOUNT as a whole (without telling you) any time you log in to GMail or similar, and tracking your data.

In Vivaldi, this section of code does not work, but more work has to be done to make everything else work, just as though we were a "non-Google" browser, when logging in to Google services in the way Firefox or Edge would do. The effect of the bug is very hit or miss and for some reason, the vast majority of copies of Vivaldi work (except for being unable to delete Google log-in cookies) in spite of Google's shenanigans.

So what has done it, is the Chromium 69 engine underneath a browser (Vivaldi) that does not use Google's account infrastructure. Good news is, the devs are on it.

hari.cu

Aahaa..
I use chrome as backup. I do not like this new feature-which is, my account which I use to sync bookmarks is always on. That is why I like other browsers such as Vivaldi and Brave chromium (sync yet to be implemented).
By the way what does Vivaldi do differently to log in to GMail between regular and incognito window?
Thanks for all the feedback.
I am yet to try the new flag change which is suggested here. Will update soon.

Ayespy

@hari-cu The base Chromium code does not try to communicate with any external destination concerning cookies in the Private Window. Hence, what Chromium is trying to do with cookkes (and can't in Vivaldi) is not an issue.

zdm

I changed user agent string in Vivaldi 2.0 to Firefox and IT START WORKING.
I think, you need to contact google and and make agreement for Vivaldi 2.0.

Ayespy

@zdm I had not thought of that. It makes perfect sense. If it's not a Chromium-based browser, then it doesn't attempt the unwanted connection and fail.

zdm

@ayespy If I change UA to Chrome - it also works. So the problem exactly in vivaldi 2.0 UA string.

zdm

Maybe google wants some money from you

zdm

The problem is in compatibility with the Chrome 69.
If I changed Chrome engine version, for example, to 47 - it works.

vberruyer

Same for me.
Unable to log into any google accounts (Vivaldi 2.0).
I tried to disable all extensions as well as all Google cookies.
When I have the google authentication webpage I set my mail address, then my password on the second screen. On third one (the double authentication) it ask to validate the access on my android mobile. When doing so on my mobile I have a an error on vivaldi saying an error occured, try again and a "next" button. But I'm not logged on the google service.
Very annoying to have a browser without access to the google authentication.

Many thanks for your help
Vincent

Pesala

Threads merged

Standpipe

@gwen-dragon That doesn't make sense as we can log in using Incognito mode which would use the same user agent.

It's probably Vivaldi trying to do something with the identity consistency handling as well as google's handling of the user agent string.

Standpipe

Changing the user agent does not fix the issue for me, still only works with the identity consistency flag change.

Ayespy

@standpipe It does appear to be a combination effect. Google demanding something from Vivaldi because it is a "Chromium" browser, and Vivaldi unable to provide it because it doesn't use Chrome code. The curious thing is that it only happens to a limited number of cases, and not to everyone.

hari.cu

@ayespy
As many of us reporting this issue (of course very few Vivaldi user base), could log on to google accounts in incognito window without changing any flags or user identification.

I still suspect something going on at the end of big brother. Let’s see whether the future updates solve this. But I also feel it will be hard if it affects only a small user base and people in Dev team could not reproduce this in their copy of Vivaldi.

Ayespy

@hari-cu As I say, developers are working on a related issue already and a fix for that may fix this.

hari.cu

@ayespy Thanks for the update. Thanks are due to the Vivaldi team who works on this pleasing feature rich browser. :))

evelynx

Hello there. New to the Browser.
I'm also having this issue and can confirm I am able to access my Google account in incognito mode but not as standard.
This would be a deal breaker for me but I'm going to just use Chrome for Youtube in the meantime while it is fixed.

Google spits out a very generic "Oops something went wrong" error with no code right after signing in.
I've tried this on accounts both with and without a Google two factor authentication system active.

Is there any information I can provide that might help the team figure out what the issue is?
dxdiag system specs etc?

Ayespy

@evelynx I think today's update may have fixed it.

hari.cu

Sorry to say this. The latest Vivaldi update with Chromium 70 still has google sign in issue. I got the same error "something went wrong".
Win 10, Vivaldi 2.1.1322.4 (Official Build) (64-bit)
With or without add ons.
But strangely still the incognito window do the magic.
There are only 2 clues for the devs to work out since it is affecting very few.

those who affected can log in through incognito window
The latest release mentions some thing like this, I am not sure whether this has anything to do with the issue - [Regression] Google sign-in cookies are being set in Vivaldi and cannot be cleared (VB-44108)
Thanks to all those who are giving feedback here.