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A push to undermine our freedom of choice of ROMs, services, and providers.
Uhhhh. What if I'm not using a Google device? Is just the entire internet going to be gated behind Android?
Then I will de-whatever else uses their shit
Verify by qr = insta hacked
cool. guess I won't be using any of the things that use it.
🤷 oh well.
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. Although this will stop an autonomous bot in its tracks, it also adds another step to verification. But the problem runs a little deeper than the annoyance of a single additional step.
I didn't see what the spec of this new recaptcha is but my first thought is an android emulator and a free google account combined with whatever bot/LLM wants to pass through is probably going to be what happens.
And as we all know, they're going to say that not using a Genuine™ Android® Operating System is extremely suspicious.
I think I will just install Ubuntu Touch on my phones in a few months. Feels like it's just time to abandon ship.
What stops a bot to just run an android emulator to scan any prompted qr?
This would only track if we read the small letter of the proposal. That this only work on android devices which have verified identify signed within their account. Meaning that android would require id verification, aka upload your id to google.
Yeah, don't use Google. We will dwell in an alternative Web and soon it really will be illegal...
Be evil!
I wonder if GrapheneOS's sandboxed google play services will work?
