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- privacy@lemmy.ml
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- privacy@lemmy.ml
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Why would a mobile site give a QR code to prove you’re human?
I think that would prove you’re robot, if anything. I need my phone’s camera to scan the QR code, but it’s on the screen!
A screenshot to a tweet. Totally reliable source.
Is this just bullshit? What if the visitor has an iPhone? Or a Huawei? I don’t think a website is going to force Google on all visitors
I think iPhones already have Play Services with Chrome, but I could be wrong
I’d like an example of a site that does this. Name and shame. It might be the choice of the developer, too.
I see…
A Reddit post and an article from a BS content farm:
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/
The support page both refer to seems to be real though? https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652?hl=en
Does what it’s saying mean that Google Play Services is required to pass their captchas on mobile?
Edit: Found a comment in the Reddit thread from someone claiming to have seen one of these captchas in the wild, which supposedly does do this check but is easily bypassed:
Got good news, I just had this captcha. As you can see in the image there is an audio and an eye icon at the bottom. We can protest against this captcha by clicking the eye and doing the original one. As long as a substantial amount of people keep doing that I assume it wont’ go away.
google and microsoft are creating a fault line in tech. one that was previously only drawn by Apple. now everyone will be forced to either assimilate or decentralize. which ironically is exactly what the internet needed, it’s grown entirely too privatized in the past decade or so. i sincerely hope this results in more people thinking critically about their tech. and that the next billionaire with an “idea” doesn’t just make everyone complacent again. but all i can do is hope.
This is a line only few care about. Millions will blindly and gladly give their information over and happily play in the walled gardens. They see privacy focused people as old men yelling at clouds (pun intended).
that’s how they are NOW, but pessimism doesn’t get anyone anywhere.
I guess I won’t be visiting those shitty websites then. fuck off, google.
Seems poorly thought through. Some chump with Photoshop and a text editor could replicate this but change the QR code to a malware site in minutes.
A website that pulls this crap is a website I will simply not use.
That’s all fine until you actually need the site. If it’s your bank, payment portal for your new apartment, scheduling page for your doctor, etc. Not every site is optional.
You can visit your bank in person, send a check to pay for your apartment, call your doctor to schedule an appointment, etc. Not everything has to be done online.
C’mon Motorola, hurry up.
But that will be running GrapheneOS and so has the same issue as in the screenshot.
GrapheneOS lets you install Google Play Services locked inside a sandbox inside a separate profile, which might work?
The whole system is designed around identifying you as an individual (and until now about making you as miserable as possible until you gave up), so I’m not sure how happy Google would be if you tried that.
But they won’t be de-googled. I assume Google has some sort of Trojan software that remains permanently in the background that users can’t see.
Untrue. Motorola with GrapheneOS will still be degoogled. No clue where your idea comes from. Motorola is not even Google anymore.
I think they’re saying that the Motorola phones will have never had google, so they can’t have the sleeper trigger google leaves behind when it has been removed from a phone. I don’t know if the Motorola phones will have the google app store or any other google apps preinstalled, though.
I don’t really understand. Motorola phones have and will come with Google play. There will just be official support for GOS. That could mean two things: you have to flash it yourself or you could get it preinstalled. Either way I don’t see how the first part changes.
Then that’s cleared up :)
I didn’t know that they would have the google play store installed, so either I interpreted them wrong or they also didn’t know that.
I’m willing to bet a million dollars that Google had this shit locked and ready for quite some time.
Thanks Americans for bringing in this administration. Lina Khan was too horrible to head FTC I guess.
And users have to abandon all services that force a militarized google/microsoft into their ecosystem.
And I will. They’ll lose me as customer.
hcaptcha exists, people.
And mcaptcha
Also, how will iOS deal with this?
Gives an opportunity for more privacy-respecting websites to meet the demand.
