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Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 5 days ago by LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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  • Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.

  • 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.

  • This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 57 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

OMG is that why I always have to identify bicycles and crosswalks? That makes sense.

[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And started off with letter identification to help with reading scanned books. For example, place 3 known 'R's tell users to select all R's. If majority of people select 4 R's then that unknown 4th R becomes a known letter

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I knew that function. And improving OCR felt like a worthwhile endeavor to crowdsource. There are a lot of old books that we need to digitize before we lose them forever.

The pivot to recognizing things for self-driving cars makes a lot of sense, but I really don't like the idea that I'm increasing shareholder value for Tesla.