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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.
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
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.
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??
the surgically implanted chip is required to be scanned
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.
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”
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
Embrace
Extend
Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform
Whatever this is for, guess I’m not going to use it anymore.
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.
Fucking assholes
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!
I won’t install an app to access a fucking website.
LOL, just as I started using an /e/os phone
Will forcing a page to dekstop mode do anything?
Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?
To be honest, most of what they use now is pretty easy for machines to do. Mostly because they’ve been using the captcha to train ocr and self driving.
