Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

Post by lesuorac » Thu, May 07, 2026, 12:38 AM UTC

LorenPechtel wrote: post #118

lucb1e wrote: post #54

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I'd rather have to do ID verification at a government site that gives out blindable RSA signatures to browse the web with using open source software, than this overseas tech company needing to lock down the whole device and tech stack and not have to 'show ID' at all. One of these two holds elections... Music/movie corporations and game developers must look forward to an age where people can't access the cache files…

One of them pretends to hold elections.

Post by userbinator » Thu, May 07, 2026, 12:41 AM UTC

lucb1e wrote: post #54

hellojesus wrote: post #12

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This is going to make my grapheneos journey a bit more exciting. How wild to force users through an official google identification for web browsing. Does the iPhone recaptcha app force you to login with a Google account? Seems we didn't need ID verification for the web to lose all anonymity.

I'd rather have to do ID verification at a government site that gives out blindable RSA signatures to browse the web with using open source software, than this overseas tech company needing to lock down the whole device and tech stack and not have to 'show ID' at all. One of these two holds elections... Music/movie corporations and game developers must look forward to an age where people can't access the cache files…

Post by userbinator » Thu, May 07, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC

donmcronald wrote: post #165

graphememes wrote: post #82

yeah im not doing that

You don’t need to. As long as the dumb majority goes along with it, your options are to capitulate or get locked out of society.

Post by Barbing » Thu, May 07, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC

blueg3 wrote: post #141

Velocifyer wrote: post #111

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I will be unable to solve the phone verification because I use LineageOS for microG, but any fraudster can just buy a bunch of $30 android phones. Many people have trouble using a smartphone, so they use dumbphones, but they will be locked out. Many people just don't have any mobile phone because they don't think that it is useful.

Google is mostly interested in abuse that happens beyond the scale of how many $30 phones you can buy.

Post by driverdan » Thu, May 07, 2026, 12:49 AM UTC

comboy wrote: post #57

driverdan wrote: post #37

Any company that requires me to scan a QR code to make a purchase is losing my purchase.

You would not last long in China ;) (you pay by scanning QR code in .. well, everywhere)