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Re: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Post by esseph »

everdrive wrote: post #71
fsflover wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smartphone is just a small computer. I don't see hiw what you say makes sense.

It's a small computer that I don't really control with a horrible UI, horrible privacy, and nothing but perverse incentives. ("download the app!")

Sounds like Windows

Re: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Post by aboringusername »

I suppose it's now become a default assumption every customer is going to own a smart phone that complies with this requirement?

It seems on iOS you'll even need to download an application, which is quite a bit of friction.

In the current economic times, adding minutes onto the user journey is not going to result in increased sales, I suspect the data will prove the opposite.

Using a mobile device is bad enough as it is: TOTP, email, SMS codes, 3DS etc, while you can say this is part of the "flow", it's too much. I can see many abandoned journeys from this.

Re: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Post by kajman »

otterley wrote: post #68
kajman wrote: post #48

This would not have ever been announced while Lina Khan was running the FCC.

What does the FCC have to do with this?

Anti-trust. They're selling part of the problem (inference via Gemini) and now they're selling a solution. They also dominate web standards by developing the dominant browser. And they control one of two dominant phone platforms that will collaborate to enable this solution.

If this were some smaller company that just did cloud then it'd never even make it to PoC. This can only happen because it's Google Cloud, and they can leverage everything they own all at once. Those not buying into their ecosystem can take a hike.

Re: Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Post by aboringusername »

semiquaver wrote: post #85

Serious question: what if you don’t have a (smart)phone?

Go fuck yourself?

I mean, that seems to be the general societal attitude.

And you'll need to buy new ones because many things are app only, or are migrating that way (including being able to travel to certain countries)

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