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Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

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Re: Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

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Post by jimmy76615 »

Doesn't surprise me at all and seems like a good solution to the problem of human verification. It won't take long for AI to catch up to that, but this captcha method might hold for a couple of months.

Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this. The alternative would be device certificate stuff (ala did Apple sign for this being a proper Apple device?). Having to shake your hand sounds a lot more privacy friendly. Are you guys seriously worried that Google is gonna steal your secret handshakes?

Re: Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

Cider9986 wrote: post #9

I saw a post on the GrapheneOS forum of someone who was accosted by Google with this requirement, so they are certainly using it. It's interesting the parallels of Google's recaptcha and Cloudflare turnstile. Cloudflare is free, no image selector, allows VPNs and Tor for the most part, just 0 click with a good ip reputation and 1 click with a bad one. Recaptcha is paid, trains waymos, sucks millions of hours of human…

> trains Waymos

https://m.xkcd.com/2228/

Re: Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

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Post by ButlerianJihad »

nerdsniper wrote: post #7
Terr_ wrote: post #4

Imagine getting your hand wrongly blacklisted as a fake, and then someday down the road you make a wrong gesture during an online interview and now your real-name is also on the suspicion list.

Imagine you don’t have a hand.

As a Man of Culture, my hand ranks highly among my most valuable appendages!

Re: Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

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Post by aix1 »

jimmy76615 wrote: post #11

Doesn't surprise me at all and seems like a good solution to the problem of human verification. It won't take long for AI to catch up to that, but this captcha method might hold for a couple of months. Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this. The alternative would be device certificate stuff (ala did Apple sign for this being a proper Apple device?). Having to shake your hand sounds a lot more privac…

> Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this.

For starters, it's extremely invasive (camera on to pay a bill - wtf?), has unclear privacy implications and questionable accessibility (to put it mildly).

Re: Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

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Post by toxic72 »

Cider9986 wrote: post #14
outside1234 wrote: post #13

Is it weird that my reaction to all of this is that I am just going to drop these websites when they ask me for this?

No, but what would you do if it's a government required service?

The IRS wanted a full 3d scan of my face to prove identity AFTER I already had a working account used every year for the past 3+ years.

They asked for feedback after I canceled the login, I gave very candid feedback in a form.

Then they asked if I would give an interview.

You know why I wanted to log in? To claim a $7 refund.

They ended up mailing it.

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