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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 986aignan »

spencerflem wrote: post #164
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, how does Tor or other services do it now?

They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think. I’m not talking about the network itself but the servers on the other end. I guess my point is that while Google is definitely malicious, I don’t think every site using recaptcha is and if we expect them not to use that tool there should probably be an alternative.

> They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think.

I think SV was asking what onion services, which can't really use recaptcha, do to prevent the DDoS storm.

And I would imagine the answer is obscurity, since the dark web isn't nearly as well-mapped as the public web. That and some Anubis or other PoW would probably go far.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by arccy »

lxgr wrote: post #105
brunocvcunha wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

probably Google Doc Apps Script, those create so many Google cloud projects

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by pino83 »

donmcronald wrote: post #170
dwedge wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So just to clarify, you also didn't solve anything but you want everyone to know you told them so and you were smarter? > If you are one of them, you know what I'm talking about. I don't refer to you. But to the other 99.x%. Reminds me of Facebook engagement bait

I saw a lot of people get told they were too dumb to understand how the app stores or Adobe subscriptions were a good value proposition. A lot of people rolled in the mud and now they’re upset their clothes are dirty. If it didn’t affect those of us that tried to resist, I wouldn’t care, but we got dragged along unwillingly and now it may be impossible to hit the brakes before corporations control everything by usurp…

Oh, yeah, these discussions as well... Precisely.

Good that some people are able to translate my thoughts into actual English... :D

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by stavros »

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…

What? Don't Cloudflare literally have their own CAPTCHA service? Why are they using reCAPTCHA?

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by danparsonson »

codedokode wrote: post #116

To be fair, there are already apps that require a mobile phone to sign up, for example, VK, Telegram. And I think Google requires to scan a QR code to register account, so it is easier just to buy a Google account on a black market if you need it for some purpose. Nobody trusts web browsers nowadays.

I think you and I move in very different social circles...

I would have no idea how, nor desire to purchase a Google account on the black market, and I do in fact still trust that my web browser can do TLS correctly.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by Permit »

hedora wrote: post #174

Is there a way to just ban all these sites? Like a firefox plugin or whatever that detects this crap, and just bounces over to some place more reputable, like archive.is.

It looks like archive.is uses recaptcha so I don’t think that’s the fix you’re looking for.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by syntheticnature »

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…

I thought archive.is were the ones squabbling with Cloudflare (extreme simplification)

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by djeastm »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #92
rdedev wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When companies like this exist, what is the point of relying of TPM? Looks like the future is bright for VC backed bots https://doublespeed.ai/

I'm assuming that's a troll / sarcasm / fake... But that could just be my last vestige of faith in humanity. Edit: aaaand... That's another little sliver of my faith gone : https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/04/how-fake-people...

Yeah, it's real. Say goodbye, faith!

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by varenc »

I have a good friend who doesn't own a cell phone. He's a math professor. Every year he keeps living life without a smartphone, I continue to be more impressed. Things like this makes me feel like he might have to eventually give in. https://archive.is is now serving, via Cloudflare, this QR code backed CAPTCHAs. There seems no way to get past them without a smartphone. Sad times. I wonder at what point even basic government services will essentially require a smartphone.

Re: Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

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Post by neilv »

After all the surveillance capitalism abuses over the last 2-3 decades of Web, it's a little late to be pushing back, but... should we start shunning individuals from companies who implement this?

Whether it's from companies that create the tech, or companies that use it.

In the orgy of money, we've had a kind of industry-wide sociopathic convention of individual engineers considering it perfectly OK to further surveillance capitalism.

Can we reverse that?

If someone says we can't, because "everyone does it", are they saying that we're a field of baddies?

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