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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

#42

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I wonder if anyone has thought about what happens if and when Google (or others) gets bought out. No firm lasts forever.

It is not possible to buy a 4 trillion public company

Even if the purchasing entity is backed by a foreign country?

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

#44
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Not gonna happen. Ever. If a web requires me to do this to access it, I simply refuse. The last time I needed some web was my electricity company - sent them a ticket with a complaint. They replied with some bs like "your browser is simply not supported" so I kept sending them the same ticket over and over again until I got a real response and it seems they decided to change the system. To use my favorite quote: That…

Yeah I’ve already warned my discord friends that the moment I have to show my ID I’m out of there without a goodbye. It sucks, but I just can’t compromise further. Personal ID’s are an absolute red line.

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

#45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if anyone has thought about what happens if and when Google (or others) gets bought out. No firm lasts forever.

It is not possible to buy a 4 trillion public company

Valuations are not permanent. Amazon dropped 90% during the dotcom bubble. And there is always another financial crisis coming.

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

#46

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?

Then I would opt not to use the computer for this task, and instead call, visit, mail, or fax the government agency.

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

#47
post #28

Not gonna happen. Ever. If a web requires me to do this to access it, I simply refuse. The last time I needed some web was my electricity company - sent them a ticket with a complaint. They replied with some bs like "your browser is simply not supported" so I kept sending them the same ticket over and over again until I got a real response and it seems they decided to change the system. To use my favorite quote: That…

Companies do and will simply label customers who repeatedly "protest" in such a manner as "vexatious" and use that as a justification to deny service. Utilities will probably be last due to regulations around providing utilities but other important companies will do it.

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

#48
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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.

I wonder if the identity requirements are lowered if you owe them money?

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

#49

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

Then you sign in using your eID which is both highly secure and tied to your personal identity. Government services don't need 3rd party are-you-a-human verification, not when your account is tied to your identity. (this is from the Netherlands where you can use digID [0] to sign into government services and ID-bound 3rd parties like insurance, mortgages, pensions etc) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiD

I thought recently there was a kerfuffle about DigiD being tied to an American data farming company

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

#50

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…

>this captcha method might hold for a couple of months

So stripping away user privacy even more is justified for implementing an already obsolete verification method?

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