Google Drive needs a personal client ID per remote
Creating a personal Google Drive client ID for rclone is a manual, repeated chore that users fear will break when Google retires shared IDs.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 17 August 2026 · last reported 19 August 2026
What's going wrong
Rclone users who connect Google Drive are being pushed off a shared OAuth client ID that Google is retiring during 2026.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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