Google’s reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.

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    21 hours ago

    I appreciate this informative title, much more than the hysterical trash-titles that were posted elsewhere.

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    Time for the EU to step up and make it illegal for any European website to use these captchas.

    Regulate this shit, this is breaking any open web standard and also an accessibiliy nightmare. A lot of old people have a computer but a dumb phone, also how is a blind person that uses a screenreader supposed to navigate such a captcha?

    Ban this shit. NOW

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      We should all suggest to EU what they should focus on:

      1. Make more phone OEM’s that work WITH JollaOS, PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, etc (With ability to fully switch OS’es)
      2. To make it where Android must stay open, and iOS needs to open up instead of clamping down (No more walled gardens)
      3. Another big thing: Having EU people own Android and iOS. With EU having them both fully open sourcing their OS’es with GPL-license for EU people to use and have. To know fully well that it is not being used for bad
      4. Same as #3 but for JavaScript

      Anyone want to add other stuff?

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      19 hours ago

      Unfortunately, I can’t give you more than 1 upvote. Want to give you tens of upvotes because I agree with you so bloody much!!

      EU have “banned” Google Analytics. It’s time for banning reCAPTCHA too, but hard banning - both of them!

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      No. That’s what happens when the United States deliberately chooses to let its monopolies capture markets unchecked.

      Google, like Microsoft, Amazon and a slew of egregious, predatory Big Tech monopolies, would have been broken up into harmless pieces years ago - if not decades - in any other country.

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        That’s what happens when the United States deliberately chooses to let its monopolies capture markets unchecked.

        This right here, but without the “deliberate”, which hides the egregious levels of corruption that allowed for this to happen.