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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Post by Rebelgecko »

dingaling wrote: post #32
trollbridge wrote: post #23

Your Google Account holds a lot of valuable information, from cherished photos to important emails and documents. Stuff like this is why I and many other people are going out of our way to make this no longer the case.

"Be a shame if you couldn't access them any more... Verify identity to continue"

Drink verification can

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Post by hogwasher »

pillmillipedes wrote: post #56
pzxc wrote: post #24

https://nevergivethemyourface.com/

why are so many websites called title-of-the-article-dot-com ai-generated? I suppose the kind of people making them just don't have a blog or something

why are so many people so comfortable making this assumption, based on writing style or a checklist of supposed tells or notoriously unreliable detectors, and making kneejerk accusations like they can do no harm and are already settled fact? It's one thing to feel suspicious or disregard the article yourself, but being so incautious about making public accusations without solid evidence is another.

At best, you've identified LLM use. At worst, you've insulted a human writer. Either way, you've derailed the conversation away from the topic at hand.

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Post by abrookewood »

sgc wrote: post #54
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not in Firefox there isn't. It's part of the website.

I use a 30-seconds-of-work horribly-hacked Stylus setting to make it a blue dot that can expand on hover: @-moz-document regexp(". ") { / Insert code here... */ #credential_picker_container { width: fit-content !important; height: fit-content !important; } iframe[src^=" https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select "] { width: 10px !important; height: 10px !important; border-radius: 50% !important; background-color:b…

Sorry, what is stylus? I'd love to get that configured. Those pop-ups are damn annoying.

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Post by sgc »

abrookewood wrote: post #74
sgc wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a 30-seconds-of-work horribly-hacked Stylus setting to make it a blue dot that can expand on hover: @-moz-document regexp(". ") { / Insert code here... */ #credential_picker_container { width: fit-content !important; height: fit-content !important; } iframe[src^=" https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe/select "] { width: 10px !important; height: 10px !important; border-radius: 50% !important; background-color:b…

Sorry, what is stylus? I'd love to get that configured. Those pop-ups are damn annoying.

It's like Grease monkey for CSS instead of JS.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Post by preg_match »

moritzwarhier wrote: post #5

This sounds... totally normal. Emphasis on "totally". But I guess Google coming out with a cloud-based FaceID clone was just a matter of time... apart from using just a vastly larger amount of 2D photos and more precise PI techniques, instead of that stupid local-only, small-AI-based, 3D-scanning technique that falls back to passwords... eh, I prefer Apple as my good cop ever since I can afford Apple devices

The main threat, and this covers Face ID, is that law enforcement and ICE have a much easier time compelling these auth methods. The legal bar is much, much lower than passwords. You should always turn Face ID off when traveling, and ideally power off the phone.

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Post by jryle70 »

swat535 wrote: post #62
PradeetPatel wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please explain why it is depressing? This feature is widely celebrated in the accessibility user groups in India, since the traditional sign-in methods have been proven to be a major friction point for users with special needs.

The same reason age identity verification is getting a lot of push back..? This is dystopian on another level. We are gong to reach a state of total digital surveillance without regulation at this point.

Then regulate. The feature itself is useful, not depressing.

Re: Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account

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Post by sixothree »

pylua wrote: post #71
dang wrote: post #68

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Thanks! and yikes

Yes— they spy on every pic and text upload. They literally are big brother.

I uploaded a picture to Google Maps once. They told me they needed to access my photos to be able to upload the picture.

A week later I get a notification “hey do you want to upload this photograph of a restaurant you took at location x?”. So Google Maps was busy rifling through my photos while I was going about my day-to-day business.

Creepy, gross and repulsive.

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