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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 40 points 6 months ago (5 children)

100% real.

All reCAPTCHAs are converting to Google Fraud Defence automatically.

reCAPTCHA is adding new challenge types including Mobile Device challenge through the reCAPTCHA app, which only runs on iOS and Google Play Services on certified Android (Not Graphene, Lineage, mobile Linux).

They're also adding camera video challenges, so you have to prove you're a human by showing your face and doing hand gestures on demand. And they're adding features to require biometric verification.

Plus, reCAPTCHA is now fully integrated into Google Analytics (funny how that works), so you can "reach the right audiences".

So we've gone from "prove your not a bot" to "prove who you are, link your browser to your phone, and show us your face and then we'll let you see our 15 million websites".

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/

reCAPTCHA will continue to be the core bot defense pillar of the broader Fraud Defense platform. Existing reCAPTCHA customers are automatically Fraud Defense customers, with no migration required, no action needed, and no change to pricing. Your existing site keys and integrations remain exactly as they are today.

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652

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[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 22 points 6 months ago (1 child)

This needs it's own post not buried in the comments. Thanks for the headsup.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Who do I bother telling about God y that can actually write a half decent article that people will read?

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[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

What if you can't do the hand gestures because you have a disability of some kind?

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

You get told to download the app from a device that Google gets paid for and have to share your identity with them.

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[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

It seems they're really focusing on "registration, login, cart, and payment", which would mean the customer would have to do this effective 2FA (which most consumers have conveniently been conditioned into using...), at least during these stages. This paired with the ability to allow "trusted" AI agents (including shopping assistants "that drive a projected 25% increase in average order value"), really makes it appear they're incentivizing use of these shopping assistants (in order to avoid the 2FA hassle). It's batshit insane the big-tech oligopoly has enshittified the internet to such a degree, the average consumer is required to outsource their usage to a big-tech agent (or at least one "trusted" by these platforms), for them to get any meaningful use out of it. And the rogue actors? Well, they'll probably resort back to exploiting the third-world for solving CAPTCHAs...