Google asking many to select a client certificate erroneously

emilfihlman 12 points 5 comments June 16, 2026
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Google just prompted me to select a certificate for lh3.googleusercontent.com:443 I'm not alone in this, also happened to my friend, and also posted to Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1u7h672/browser_asking_me_to_select_certificate_is_it_a/ Seems like somebody definitely misconfigured something somewhere. The question is then was this the direct result of the misconfiguration, or someone abusing a misconfiguration. Client certificates can be used to identify people so this is a good way to mass collect certs. This data could also be used to analyse client certificates that are around.

Discussion Highlights (3 comments)

a_t48

Wife also ran into this, advised her to click "no". Very odd.

karabara

First thing I saw when I reopened Chrome and had Gemini open. Thought it had something to do with my GlobalProtect VPN since there’s a security vulnerability being logged right now.

jlma

Yes, I've been having the same issue all day.

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