I imagine scammers are already thinking of ways to use this for phishing too

Captcha has been one of the greatest google acquisitions ever.

They acquired it under the guise of improving OCR and have since morphed it into an AI data farm (how else is google lens gonna know what objects are what?) and now total insight into a users every single action from desktop to mobile, tying it all together into a surveillance nightmare.

I can guess the permissions that the recaptcha app needs now. Probably something akin to root access with all datapoints and considerations you could think of.

You don't have to drink a verification can, but you do need to buy a verification phone.

3. Bots don't have trouble scanning QR codes nor emulating Android

i have one. but it isn't android, or ios, or 'smart' in any way. it doesn't even text. it's just a telephone that fits in my pocket and connects to the cellular networks. it's all i want. it's all i use. it's all i've needed ever since i got my first one about 25 years ago.

It really should be illegal to build systems that require a user's access to any unrelated technology. You shouldn't be forced to have a phone to pay a parking fee or to get on the bus. You shouldn't need an app to charge your car. You shouldn't need to use proprietary software from one spesific company to pass a captcha on a random site.

Sorry, my faith in users is basically zero. These dummies will go to websites that tell them to copy code and run it with win+r. They're morons and will do anything if a website promises them something.

And had the qr code rickroll them, because that's really a good song and dude got pipes

Clicking the headphone icon to hear the audio option is the way to bypass this if you get one.

With the way the Trump admin is going I'm surprised they haven't totally dismantled the ADA already.

How so?

I once made QR code stickers that placed people on a website warning them to stop trusting QR codes.

I spent a year traveling and everywhere I saw a QR code my sticker QR code went over it.

You target the right locations and spoof the website and you can get credit card, phone, email, address. Svan this QR code for 20% off blah blah blah.

Do use them.

It is a paywall, you just pay with your data. Except Google gets the revenue and not the website so maybe a second paywall will be “necessary”

5. Crypto comes out of nowhere with a steel chair and now we have to pay websites for access.

You can always build more bot detection tools, right? Or am I wrong?

It's already happening. They tell you to scan a QR code that links to a website where they ask you to log in with your Google account (but it's just a phishing page).

Good job Google!

You want me to scan a QR code to log onto your fuckin' website?!

They're using the fact that everyone else both already owns a Google or iOS device, and does everything on those devices, to punish desktop and alt mobile OS users.

The fact that this is going on right as AluminumOS is down the pipes, and right as rigged parts prices threaten to kill desktops as an option to begin with makes this especially sus.

The way things are going right now, I won't be surprised if we see a computing future where you're either on a Google or Apple-controlled device, or you're on a thin client tied to a cloud subscription, and you won't own your tech anymore.

Bezos' 'Give up your PC and rent from our cloud' threat is sounding less and less like a threat and more and more likely to become reality.

1 year later

Government website you have to use to pay your water bill: “Confirm you are a human…”

If you don't have a smartphone are you truly human? ^/s^

So those humans will go buy the cheapest they can find which is, surprise, Android + Google Play Services.

Yup, and they are being cut out of society everyday. Just losing your phone or even breaking it can be a figurative death sentence. Want to check your email from another device? Did you set up 2 factor with your phone?

Yeah sorry, can't access your email.

More importantly, to link multiple device fingerprints to a single identity.

malware is bytecode Google didn't approve of. when google spies on you, that's just "legitimate interest"

I would guess not, given the other recent news about degoogled Android devices also being unable to pass reCAPTCHA.