Fuck you, Google.

Don't have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.

Absolutely not. Go fuck yourselves. There's not a person in the world who I would do this for.

It can try, but I'm not doing that. I will stop using everything that requires it.

For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.

So what's stopping me from using OBS as a virtual camera and feeding it a stream of stock footage of someone waving their hand?

Privacy nightmare aside, is it just me or does this sound a lot less secure than the find the bus bullshit they do now? Seems like it would be much easier for a bot to generate a realistic looking hand wave than interpret increasingly obscure photo puzzles.

Jokes on them, I have no webcam.

Fuck that

Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers

• https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
• https://grapheneos.org/ * https://postmarketos.org/
• https://www.fairphone.com/ * https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
• https://librewolf.net/ * https://www.waterfox.com/
• https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox * https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
• https://www.ecosia.org/ * https://qwant.com/ * https://searxng.org/
• https://immich.app/ * https://nextcloud.com/
• https://www.comaps.app/ + https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
• https://signal.org/ * https://element.io/en
• https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
• https://bitwarden.com/ * https://joplinapp.org/
• https://www.qobuz.com/
• https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ * https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
• https://tuta.com/secure-email

Uh yeah, it most certainly will not.

So can I just use the OBS virtual camera with a video of somebody waving

Waving is something robots already could in the 80s.

Can the AI identify which finger I'm waving too?

Web cam? I don't have one on my computer, what now?

Google can turn on my webcam all it wants. They can't see through the sticky tape anyways.

If I have to do face verification at some point I am using a pic of Harold. I am almost 70.

Saying “WILL” is clickbait.

As many have pointed out, they can’t force this.

And it says "When the hand gesture feature is enabled, reCAPTCHA collects the following data:".
When it gets forced, we talk again.

Doesn't AI work great for this, what with those AIs that turn Reddit mods into anime cosplayer girls?

they gunna see my nuts

Well, not me.

I have a Mac, so it has things like WiFi and Bluetooth that most Wintel boxes don’t tend to have. (I used to build PCs. I know those motherboards exist, and what it costs over base to get those features. So I know they exist and why they’re not common.) What it does not have is a camera. My MacBook has one, but any site that wants to use it needs to ask permission first. When I say no, it does not see the camera. It’s not saying “I see camera, can I use it” it’s asking “can I use camera?” An answer of no returns the message “no camera.”

I suspect it’s the same with all platforms. Meaning anyone who wants this can use it and the rest of us will just default to identifying sidewalks to train the cars.

Copypasta.