Own Google Drive client ID needs domain and branding
Creating a personal Google Drive OAuth client for rclone now requires a verified domain and branding pages, which many users cannot set up.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 30 September 2026 · last reported 3 October 2026
What's going wrong
People who want to use their own Google Drive client ID with rclone now face Google's branding checks, which ask for a verified domain, a public homepage and a privacy policy.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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