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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...
Be evil!
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform
Fucking assholes
A push to undermine our freedom of choice of ROMs, services, and providers.
I think I will just install Ubuntu Touch on my phones in a few months. Feels like it's just time to abandon ship.
Yeah, don't use Google. We will dwell in an alternative Web and soon it really will be illegal...
I completely missed how Chrome took the market in 2010-2020. I thought everyone understood why it should be avoided, but here we are.
I wonder if GrapheneOS's sandboxed google play services will work?
What stops a bot to just run an android emulator to scan any prompted qr?
This would only track if we read the small letter of the proposal. That this only work on android devices which have verified identify signed within their account. Meaning that android would require id verification, aka upload your id to google.
if legit users fail Google’s captcha, then site owners will stop using Google for captcha
So wait a moment. How can the browser even check if play services are installed? And scanning a QR code is just accessing the camera, what does that have to do with Play Services?
There's already the app published and it has already blatantly fake reviews
