Let's hope the EU prevents this from happening. We should be able to access every site we wish without Google's permission.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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We should all be encouraging Europeans to:
- Force Android and iOS to be given to the people to own and open-source the OS fully in EU with GPL license
- Fine them to oblivion if they do not cooperate
- If they try to double down then piece up their companies into parts
We all tired of their fucking shit. Everyone keep getting people active and informed on all this!! Together anything is possible!!
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Eventually privacy minded people like us will have to start creating and visiting sites on the dark web.
Sheesh, using alternative sites instead of Facebook and Reddit isn't using the dark web.
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Fuck em. If websites use this, I don't need to see their shit or patronize their business. Google can eat a dick.
Is there no other option to verify? I mean like selecting bikes in pictures
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phew, feels like I jumped the ship just in time. Installed PostmarketOS on my Fairphone a couple of months ago, and I'm not looking back.
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Not noticed it and fuck those websites. Happy to boycott.
We seriously need to ask Valve to make SteamOS phones.
Not only will they be good for gaming but imagine being able to put other OS'es on it like PC's. Bazzite, PostmarketOS, etc. Plus Valve will still get revenue from people using the upcoming Steam ARM Game Store, and the current Bannerhub/Gamenative community android apps that enable playing PC games they own from Steam/GOG on Phones
Its such a huge opportunity that we all should be encouraging then to pursue now and after they release their current 3 big projects: Steam Controllers, Steam Machines, Steam Frames
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So i just checked back a day later after posting this and it blew up more than i expected. I've gotten some comments suggesting its not really preventing GrapheneOS from being usable, so this might need more context. Do your own research and testing on this one for sure, as with most things. Sorry for not answering comments, quite busy right now.
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I'm not a security guy, what is the problem that this is supposed to be fixing? Like I guess you wouldn't be able to use a virtuallised os to visit your banking website? Like I understand if you work for a bank you should only be able to access some things from specific computers, but normal people?
It's intended to be a successor to the current reCAPTCHA, sold as harder to spoof than current picture-based versions. Now, almost from its start, CAPTCHA existed to train AI vision models. So Google basically painted themselves into a corner using free labor to train models good enough to recognize images, now they are switching to device signals.
That said, they're going to have to provide a compatibility layer for iOS which AFAIK doesn't come with Google Play Services right now. So I have some faith in the smart folks who make these de-shittified OSes working something out via microG or the like.
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The benefit is for Google to make more profits if people are locked into their "ecosystem" without competition driving the prices down.
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I run e/OS/. Block me. I'm good. There is plenty out there that doesn't require Google.
graphene can have the play service, but in a sandbox. anything other than that uses microg so its emulated. probably needs some time to get up to speed. if not, just use the desktop site instead of mobile. i dont really see this as much of a threat to any of us.
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If you're serious about it probably worth just using an old phone as an Auth device and only switch it on for that and still use graphene as your daily driver.
When my current iPhone dies, I'm never having a smartphone ever again.
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This does seem to work with sandboxed Google Play Services on GrapheneOS btw.
I scanned the demo QR code on Google's talk page about it with sandboxed Play Services enabled and it gave me a custom popup asking if I'd like to verify.
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I'm using Firefox on GrapheneOS and recaptcha still works normally for me.