This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Gonna have to switch to Tor browsing completely then.
How likely is this to affect Linux phones?
If I understand it correctly it would be something that certain websites chose to add.
If a website add this new captcha you wont be able to access the website without a verified android (and I suppose apple too) device.
The device with google play would be use as a way to verify, no matter the device used to browse that website.
Honestly. It's terrible, but i might actually have to give Apple money for my next phone.
I'm just done with Android at this point.
We had a good run, but it's over.
Apple is horrible aswell, not just their practices but their interfaces.
That's not a problem since websites that ask for captcha get added to my ublock filter.
Also hcaptcha exists.
Whatever this is for, guess I'm not going to use it anymore.
So now Chinese who managed to bypass the firewall cannot access western sites behind Google's new Captcha-wall?
Wow, great job, Google. 🙄
(I mean unless they managed to import a Googled-phone into China too)
Not trying to be an ass here, but why the fuck would Google care about Chinese ILLEGALLY accessing the world internet. They shouldn't even be on it in the first place according to big daddy pooh. China is a utopia according the the CCP, they don't need to access the evil Internet.
Google has every incentive to break reCAPTCHA competitors and/or use botnets to spam anything not protected by reCAPTCHA.
LOL, just as I started using an /e/os phone
