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If you're a web dev, and you implement this, just know you won't receive my web traffic. Ill go live with the other robots and we will start our own internet with blackjack and hookers.

That means if Google’s verification system gets widely adopted, browsing the web could become a headache.

Using a phone to scan a QR code in order to access a website on my desktop is a headache even if it has no dependencies in particular.

Ignoring the de-Googled phones for a sec: I assume if you're using a desktop, then the QR shows up and you have to drag out your phone to scan it in the camera app that then prompts to open the google play store. Dumb, but possible for people who have a phone with Android. What about those that don't? Would you need a google account?

Now if it's all on phone (using Chrome or Firefox or whatever) and pops up a QR code, you can't scan it... but the browser would have to open the play store directly and thats a huge security no-no. The browser shouldn't even know I have the Play Store.

I have a feeling the hundreds of us that are de-Googled ad just going to stop using these sites all together.

This is awesome news for scammers:

1. Fake page will say "you need to scan this qr code to verify you're human"
2. Users normally dismisses this shit, but it has become normal nowadays, take out the phone to scan it
3. Qr code opens a page on totallynotascam.com that say "you need to install this totally safe APK on your device for verification 😉"
4. APK passes the new useless developer "verification" as the scammer either used a hacked dev account or just paid $25 with a stolen id + stolen credit card
5. User see the message "APK verified by Google play protect" and would totally believe the bullshit, giving all the possible permissions to the app

Once this is implemented, Google will have finally succeeded in closing the entire fucking internet. That is, assuming this will become anywhere successful and smaller websites will be using it as well.

Wtf

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.

Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?

I won't install an app to access a fucking website.

And any service that uses it can fuck off.

"Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for any website that implements it as no de-Googled phone user will care to use it"

Would this pass in EU? Seems anti competition. Do we need another movement like stop chat control to mobilize people?

Then I'll just not use the services that use it, very stupid, as this shouldn't be necessary

It turns out reCAPCHA has been a privacy nightmare from the beginning: from silently monitoring user activity in the background, to sending payment information to Google; in order for an AI to assess the data, and return a risk-score to the website. But that apparently wasn't bold enough, and now an effective 2FA is required, which provides additional telemetry to Google (but not to the website or app: which is obviously the privacy concern). So get ready to 2FA with Google upon registration, login, updating your cart, and payment; or to skip the hassle, you should just let an approved "shopping assistant" make purchases for you ("that drive a projected 25% increase in average order value"). I don't even own a modern Android or iOS device, so how am I supposed to solve these?

I'm getting real tired of the escalating corporate-mediated fascism.

This is evil. Fuck it. I want nothing to do with these cunts anymore. I'm degoogling this year.

Monopoly, anybody?

Naaaahhh, this is just good old fashioned American freedoms

There is a fucking huge market for non Google non iPhone come on somebody get the fuck on it

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??

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 bitches.

Glad to see their engineers came up with another way to fuck us! Thanks google!

It SHOULD spell bad news for the people that use this verification method because it just means they lose those customers.

Time to degoogle for good, then.

So more Linux phones?

We need to move away from Google. Just make them obselete.

I would never scan a qr code to verify that I'm not a bot. I'd simply close the page

Then I will de-whatever else uses their shit

Uhhhh. What if I'm not using a Google device? Is just the entire internet going to be gated behind Android?

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.

What is that supposed to mean? What QR code? Just any? I'm supposed to find some QR code laying around and scan it? Or will the webpage display a QR and I'm supposed to scan it with my phone using a mirror or something?

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.

Surely this would be nearly impossible for visually impaired people, which makes me question the ability for governments to implement this on their websites.

I know about screen reader software for visual impairment, but to expect a blind person use a separate device with a camera to take a “photo” of a QR code on another screen is beyond comprehension. Well, at least it would be in the normal timeline.

I guess I’ll have to switch to a dumb phone out of spite now.

Verify by qr = insta hacked

cool. guess I won't be using any of the things that use it.

🤷 oh well.

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. Although this will stop an autonomous bot in its tracks, it also adds another step to verification. But the problem runs a little deeper than the annoyance of a single additional step.

I didn't see what the spec of this new recaptcha is but my first thought is an android emulator and a free google account combined with whatever bot/LLM wants to pass through is probably going to be what happens.