"For your protection, you can't sign in from this device." usando selenium web-drivers en GCP Compute Engine

Question

I have automated tests of UI with Selenium, The first step is to enter a Google account (username and password, the account does not require anything else). These tests run well on my personal computer, but when I try to run them on a virtual machine in Compute Engine with chrome / firefox etc. After entering email and password, Google returns the following message:

"For your protection, you can't sign in from this device. Try again later, or sign in from another device."

Additional notes:

• I have already tried several accounts; Gmail (personal / standard and with G Suite) and the same thing happens (Selenium + Compute Engine)

• In Compute Engine machines I can enter traditionally / manually well,no problem. The problem arises when I run the script with Selenum (webdrive chrome and firefox).

• The OS Centos 7 + xfce, selenium node js

• UserAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.87 Safari/537.36"

I attach the image, I appreciate any help.

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Answer 1

I'm not positive this will help, but I notice your user-agent looks unconventional, reporting Safari and WebKit on Linux.

I know in my Firefox on MacOS, I have an extension that spoofs my user-agent with strings that I know for sure are valid but don't match my actual setup, and I reliably get that same error trying to log into my Google account unless I turn that extension off. I believe Google may be using Javascript to do some fingerprinting, and then refusing to allow logins at all if the user-agent string doesn't match what it finds, and returns only that vague message that I "can't sign in from this device."

Maybe you could try setting your user-agent string to something more common or appropriate for your OS and browser.