Mar 22, 2019 13:00:00

It seems to discontinue the support of 'IFTTT' which links all services with Gmail

By linking various services to a simple set of instructions, such as 'If xxx wakes up, execute xxx,' 'clean up with rumba when you send a mail' or 'If you take a picture with the camera, the image also in the cloud storage A service that helps you to save and automate various operations is

IFTTT . However, it has become clear that Gmail, a free email service, will soon stop supporting IFTTT.

Gmail will drop IFTTT very soon-Not Enough TECH
https://notenoughtech.com/google/gmail-will-drop-iftt-very-soon/

Google removing gmail access from IFTTT | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19458172

It is reported that Gmail will discontinue support for IFTTT, the technology blog Not Enough TECH . When the blog inquired about Google+ to the Google account team, it seems that they accidentally received 'Email related to Gmail's IFTTT support' from Google. The reason why Gmail discontinues IFTTT support seems to be the security breach surrounding Google+.

The details of 'Security breach surrounding Google +' are described in the following articles.

Google + is ahead of the end time to April 2019 with a bug detection risk of leakage of personal information of 50 million people-GIGAZINE

Google account team emailed Not Enough TECH, 'There is no need to take special measures, but the following 3rd party application (IFTTT) will not be able to access some data of Google account including Gmail content. Please note that this change will be effective from March 31, 2019. ”The third-party app IFTTT warns that it will not be possible to access some data from Google accounts. Although Google states 'Next 3rd party application', no service name other than IFTTT is listed.

Continuing, 'We are making this change as part of our ongoing effort to ensure that user data is protected. These apps (IFTTT) were announced on October 8, 2018. We have not yet complied with Google's latest data privacy requirements, 'explaining why we discontinued support for IFTTT.

Not Enough TECH stated that 'it has never been used Gmail with IFTTT', but it is regrettable that it will not be supported because IFTTT has the potential to link more tools together. You are