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Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.
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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.
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This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.
A lot of Android bot devices simulate (or even ARE) a full phone with a legit Play Store and other Google services.
This requirement is enforced vendor lock in. Nothing more.
The real use case for redroid lol
I’m getting real tired of the escalating corporate-mediated fascism.
There is a fucking huge market for non Google non iPhone come on somebody get the fuck on it
And de-enshittified analog cars. They need to hurry tf up.
I really hate the idea that any car I buy in the future is going to come stuffed with fucky software that I don’t want. Software defined car my fucking brown asshole.
I don’t want some old jalopy with a carburetor and crank windows, but there’s so little benefit to the individual for all the shit that I can’t imagine wanting it.
I do my own repairs and I hate that half the time I need to get my laptop out to reset a thing, clear a code, re-initiate some shit. Pulling the battery cable off used to work for most things, but not anymore and for a long time.
I bought the car, but they own the software? So if I want do change or repair something, I have to pay them, but if the software shits the bed, I have to pay them? Everything ends with me paying them for something I already paid for.
Fuck that.
Sailfish is awesome. It just doesn’t work on any phones that work in north America anymore.
Sailfish is closed-source, isn’t it? I want to be excited about it, but I am hesitant about another closed-source OS.
well it’s kinda semi open sadly…
Big market, but also huge barrier to entry to get a phone ecosystem off the ground. MS, Amazon, Facebook, Mozilla and many others have tried and failed. Apple and Google have huge moats
they had the benefits of being first in the market.
They weren’t really first though? Symbian, Windows Mobile and Blackberry were around but couldn’t keep up
monopoly capital tisk tisk tisk… we need to keep the children safe… don’t you care about the children?
I won’t install an app to access a fucking website.
Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?
To be honest, most of what they use now is pretty easy for machines to do. Mostly because they’ve been using the captcha to train ocr and self driving.
OMG is that why I always have to identify bicycles and crosswalks? That makes sense.
And started off with letter identification to help with reading scanned books. For example, place 3 known 'R’s tell users to select all R’s. If majority of people select 4 R’s then that unknown 4th R becomes a known letter
I knew that function. And improving OCR felt like a worthwhile endeavor to crowdsource. There are a lot of old books that we need to digitize before we lose them forever.
The pivot to recognizing things for self-driving cars makes a lot of sense, but I really don’t like the idea that I’m increasing shareholder value for Tesla.
This requirement will kick in the moment the system suspects suspicious activity. At that point, reCAPTCHA will forgo the old image puzzles and require you to scan a QR code with your smartphone to prove you’re human.
How is this going to work if you’re browsing the internet on your phone??
How is this going to work if you’re browsing the internet on your phone??
Easy, they force you to install an app, just click the link and agree to all the permissions and cookies and stuff. It might be malware, it might be legit, who knows?
Google copying UI workflows from literal malware developers…
the surgically implanted chip is required to be scanned
Drink verification can to continue
$7.00
such terrible user experience. tech is so over
You can screen grab to get it using the stupid Gemini shit
Fuck that. One of the biggest offenders of web scraping and bot traffic wants to force us all to install their spyware just to verify that we’re human when there have already been much simpler ways to do this without that bullshit captcha for years…
We need to move away from Google. Just make them obselete.
the more we keep pushing back the more we can try and make them obsolete!
I was wondering how they would screw the new Motorola phones coming out since they couldn’t do the whole “factory operating system has been tampered with” mode of whining and being little removed.
Glad to see their engineers came up with another way to fuck us! Thanks google!
I’ve scanned 4 QR codes in my life. 2 were not what I was told they would be.
I will never scan a QR code again.
I scanned a QR code once. I got JSON data back, with embedded links and other useless metadata.
Better use the self-checkout while you still can!
https://www.gs1us.org/industries-and-insights/by-topic/sunrise-2027
Why the hell did that website request my precise location data? No, get the fuck out of here with that BS.
oh god this can get fuuuuuuucked
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform
Fucking assholes
There’s already the app published and it has already blatantly fake reviews
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recaptcha/id6746882749?see-all=reviews
Supported Environments for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification: https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652
A push to undermine our freedom of choice of ROMs, services, and providers.
if legit users fail Google’s captcha, then site owners will stop using Google for captcha
Only if it’s a sizable and vocal number of users unfortunately.
Yup, exactly. It needs to meet a critical threshold of users. Otherwise, sites will just look at those few users and go “lol update to a phone that works, loser.”
