• Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.

  • Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification.

  • This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah, so the hundreds of us won’t be able to use the internet anymore if this passes

    Awesome

    • fizzle@quokk.au
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      8 hours ago

      At this part I’m genuinely starting to wonder which parts of the internet I really need.

    • XLE@piefed.social
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      9 hours ago

      Google doesn’t care about screwing up the lives of thousands of people, as long as it can capture the information of millions.