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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.
Captcha in general are annoying to customers there is no point having them today too be fair. I would consider bot visits these days as potential costumers seeing how they can buy stuff online now. If your blocking your sites because your afraid they are scraping and using it for training. Then you are just blocking the small timers likely those people who wants to democratized AI like Deepseek while the biggest culprit like Google’s web crawlers have free rain to train on your data since they won’t have captcha pop up in their end. Those bigger companies would just pass that to captcha farm.
I’m getting real tired of the escalating corporate-mediated fascism.
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
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.”
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??
such terrible user experience. tech is so over
the surgically implanted chip is required to be scanned
Drink verification can to continue
$7.00
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
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!
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform
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.
“they are building walls around my garden I’d rather pay to go to jail”
“They are building walls around my open garden. If I’m going to jail might as well be club fed”
There I fixed it for you.
Fuck apple and fuck Google.
Give me an actual Linux alternative.
And you think apple won’t do this too? Hahaha. If apple doesn’t it doesn’t work for android.
According to Google’s docs, they already have as of iOS 16.4.
At least Apple tell you they are fucking your ass.
Google act like a nice guy but they’ve been grifting you this whole time
Apple: Shhhh. sh. sh. sh. You like it. I like it. We don’t need to tell anyone. You want silicon or spit, this time?
Fucking assholes
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!
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.
Will forcing a page to dekstop mode do anything?
A push to undermine our freedom of choice of ROMs, services, and providers.
