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I have no idea, but I guess it doesn't really matter. If you start sending massive amounts of spam through gmail, does it matter if you did it after logging into the site with your user/password or through oauth api access or through smtp?

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Given how important a Google account can be, I think it's a pretty poor idea to enter your credentials into random third party software.

I don't believe you can authenticate Gmail in email clients with your account password any more - you must create an 'app specific password'.

Well, as an app store, it pretty much has complete access to your degoogled phone, but (until recently) it defaulted to a pool of shared google burner accounts that were only used to download software.

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