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Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by spencerflem »

Andrex wrote: post #26
tamimio wrote: post #17

And soon desktop OSes will follow, if you don’t have TPM you won’t be able to browse half of the internet.

A parallel, fully public and accessible internet being widespread and available for anyone with a slight tinkering kick... Could actually be really awesome. Let the commerce-driven, corporatized hellhole that the modern web has become eat itself.

I love the vision, but I do wonder how the parallel internet will deal with DDoS levels of bot traffic.

I hear ‘web of trust’ pretty often and I like the idea but that’s not anonymous or accessible either

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by brunocvcunha »

lxgr wrote: post #97

Almost completely unrelated, but I recently helped out a very confused family member with deleting not one, but two Google Cloud accounts they had no idea existed, and that they only learned about from an email referencing reCAPTCHA getting integrated into some other Google product offering. I have absolutely no idea what happened there. My best theory so far is that they clicked on some really, really wrong buttons…

AI Studio playground maybe? It seems all integrated.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by KPGv2 »

freedomben wrote: post #62
brikym wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's all fun until you can't get paid because some fintech app doesn't work. That's why we need regulations. I don't see politicians ever going against an advertising company when they're customers.

Indeed, I generally favor being conservative with regulations because they can genuinely impede progress and can be really hard to change or remove when they're bad, but this is an issue that we need regulation for. It's just too much in the interest of big tech to lock us down and strip us of our freedom of compute. Short of regulation. Unfortunately I see the regulatory environment more likely to go the other way o…

> Unfortunately I see the regulatory environment more likely to go the other way of requiring attestation. I sure hope I'm wrong.

Everyone in power wants it, across the entire globe.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by lxgr »

brunocvcunha wrote: post #102
lxgr wrote: post #97

Almost completely unrelated, but I recently helped out a very confused family member with deleting not one, but two Google Cloud accounts they had no idea existed, and that they only learned about from an email referencing reCAPTCHA getting integrated into some other Google product offering. I have absolutely no idea what happened there. My best theory so far is that they clicked on some really, really wrong buttons…

AI Studio playground maybe? It seems all integrated.

They almost certainly didn't use that.

The projects were named after a Google Doc they'd recently worked on (or a .docx attachment they'd received?) though, so my other guess is that they somehow created a Google Docs macro or similar by accident?

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by dwedge »

I've kept a spare cheap android for too long and recently went with Graphene instead. I have one Google profile and only use it for Uber, work's Google Chat and maps. One bank refused to work (even with Google services) so I moved bank. I've moved most of my mobile use to self hosted (freshrss full text, password manager, calendar, tasks) with no direct internet connection.

It's a bit irritating but I'm glad I started down this journey because it looks more and more like I'm going to be avoiding the internet

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by KPGv2 »

milderworkacc wrote: post #77
cantalopes wrote: post #56

This is crossing the line where the governments should step in and ban/fine google heavilly for this monopol behavior

I agree. There are pretty clear grounds here to think about opening an investigation here into illegal tying, or a misuse of market power. Not sure if the FTC maintains a presence on here, but if you're listening...

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Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by chadgpt2 »

ChadNauseam wrote: post #93
tardedmeme wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you run a website, it seems trivial to forward the attestation to someone else by putting the same code up on your website, and getting their device banned from google instead of your own.

The domain in the attestation would be yours, so that wouldn't work

How would the phone camera know the domain name of the website displaying the QR code it's scanning?

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by codedokode »

pixel_popping wrote: post #80

archive.is just asked me for a QRcode scan, I'm so ashame of that crap (it's behind Cloudflare) , forcing website visitors to KYC? Are you guys insane!? the web is ruined if you push for this, this is millions of websites that will suddenly force KYC? What...the...f https://ibb.co/X9Q6Y84 By KYC, obviously it's because there is very few non-criminal ways to have a SIM without KYC and get a Google account for Playstor…

Interesting, the text says "reCAPTCHA doesn't share your details with this site", but it says nothing about sharing your details with Google. Which means yes?
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