FYI Using GoogleTalk after the "shutdown"

[pidgin at alexoren.com]

On 2022-06-18 16:55, P Holder wrote:
> So I don't know exactly what Google is up to with the GoogleTalk turn
> down.  I doubt even they know what they're doing.
> 
> I just wanted to share what worked for me.  I found a couple of weeks
> ago that my link failed.  I was expecting that, but I decided to see
> if there was any work-around that worked for me.  I enabled 2FA on my
> account, and then generated an App Password and used that with Pidgin.
> To my somewhat amazement, it worked, and has continued to work now for
> 2 weeks.

It may work for some time with workarounds, but I don't think the plugin will be maintained.  The dev effort will likely go into the new GoogleChat plugin.