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Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.
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Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification.
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This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.
Fuck that. One of the biggest offenders of web scraping and bot traffic wants to force us all to install their spyware just to verify that we’re human when there have already been much simpler ways to do this without that bullshit captcha for years…
There’s already the app published and it has already blatantly fake reviews
I’m getting real tired of the escalating corporate-mediated fascism.
There is a fucking huge market for non Google non iPhone come on somebody get the fuck on it
Sailfish is awesome. It just doesn’t work on any phones that work in north America anymore.
Sailfish is closed-source, isn’t it? I want to be excited about it, but I am hesitant about another closed-source OS.
And de-enshittified analog cars. They need to hurry tf up.
I really hate the idea that any car I buy in the future is going to come stuffed with fucky software that I don’t want. Software defined car my fucking brown asshole.
I don’t want some old jalopy with a carburetor and crank windows, but there’s so little benefit to the individual for all the shit that I can’t imagine wanting it.
I do my own repairs and I hate that half the time I need to get my laptop out to reset a thing, clear a code, re-initiate some shit. Pulling the battery cable off used to work for most things, but not anymore and for a long time.
I bought the car, but they own the software? So if I want do change or repair something, I have to pay them, but if the software shits the bed, I have to pay them? Everything ends with me paying them for something I already paid for.
Fuck that.
Big market, but also huge barrier to entry to get a phone ecosystem off the ground. MS, Amazon, Facebook, Mozilla and many others have tried and failed. Apple and Google have huge moats
they had the benefits of being first in the market.
monopoly capital tisk tisk tisk… we need to keep the children safe… don’t you care about the children?
A lot of Android bot devices simulate (or even ARE) a full phone with a legit Play Store and other Google services.
This requirement is enforced vendor lock in. Nothing more.
The real use case for redroid lol
This requirement will kick in the moment the system suspects suspicious activity. At that point, reCAPTCHA will forgo the old image puzzles and require you to scan a QR code with your smartphone to prove you’re human.
How is this going to work if you’re browsing the internet on your phone??
How is this going to work if you’re browsing the internet on your phone??
Easy, they force you to install an app, just click the link and agree to all the permissions and cookies and stuff. It might be malware, it might be legit, who knows?
Google copying UI workflows from literal malware developers…
such terrible user experience. tech is so over
You can screen grab to get it using the stupid Gemini shit
the surgically implanted chip is required to be scanned
Drink verification can to continue
$7.00
if legit users fail Google’s captcha, then site owners will stop using Google for captcha
Only if it’s a sizable and vocal number of users unfortunately.
Yup, exactly. It needs to meet a critical threshold of users. Otherwise, sites will just look at those few users and go “lol update to a phone that works, loser.”
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform
I’ve scanned 4 QR codes in my life. 2 were not what I was told they would be.
I will never scan a QR code again.
I scanned a QR code once. I got JSON data back, with embedded links and other useless metadata.
Better use the self-checkout while you still can!
https://www.gs1us.org/industries-and-insights/by-topic/sunrise-2027
Why the hell did that website request my precise location data? No, get the fuck out of here with that BS.
oh god this can get fuuuuuuucked
Captcha in general are annoying to customers there is no point having them today too be fair. I would consider bot visits these days as potential costumers seeing how they can buy stuff online now. If your blocking your sites because your afraid they are scraping and using it for training. Then you are just blocking the small timers likely those people who wants to democratized AI like Deepseek. While the biggest culprit like Google’s web crawlers have free rain to train on your data. Those who are determined will would just pass that to captcha farm.
We need to move away from Google. Just make them obselete.
the more we keep pushing back the more we can try and make them obsolete!
Honestly. It’s terrible, but i might actually have to give Apple money for my next phone.
I’m just done with Android at this point.
We had a good run, but it’s over.
“they are building walls around my garden I’d rather pay to go to jail”
“They are building walls around my open garden. If I’m going to jail might as well be club fed”
There I fixed it for you.
Fuck apple and fuck Google.
Give me an actual Linux alternative.
Apple is horrible aswell, not just their practices but their interfaces.
And you think apple won’t do this too? Hahaha. If apple doesn’t it doesn’t work for android.
According to Google’s docs, they already have as of iOS 16.4.
At least Apple tell you they are fucking your ass.
Google act like a nice guy but they’ve been grifting you this whole time
Apple: Shhhh. sh. sh. sh. You like it. I like it. We don’t need to tell anyone. You want silicon or spit, this time?
So now Chinese who managed to bypass the firewall cannot access western sites behind Google’s new Captcha-wall?
Wow, great job, Google. 🙄
(I mean unless they managed to import a Googled-phone into China too)
Not trying to be an ass here, but why the fuck would Google care about Chinese ILLEGALLY accessing the world internet. They shouldn’t even be on it in the first place according to big daddy pooh. China is a utopia according the the CCP, they don’t need to access the evil Internet.
I have absolutely zero data to back my thought up here. But Google probably cares about illegal Chinese access because it would piss off the Chinese government. Google would love to get into China, it’s a huge market.
I was wondering how they would screw the new Motorola phones coming out since they couldn’t do the whole “factory operating system has been tampered with” mode of whining and being little bitches.
Glad to see their engineers came up with another way to fuck us! Thanks google!
Whatever this is for, guess I’m not going to use it anymore.
