Yes, I "like" the surprises scanning a unknown QR code. I hate this crap, same as this short URLs, it's not different from clicking on shady ad banners. A trustworth website don't need this shit, hiding its domain.
this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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Yeah I'm not picking up my phone to use your website. Bye.
I don't have a smartphone and I keep running into more and more of these QR codes. If I, as a citizen, am required to get a smartphone for these QR codes, to do citizen-like things, then it should be a utility and prices for hardware and services should come way down.
Just like they did with automobiles!
You get by without a smartphone? I was really late to get one but you just can't function in today's society without one where I'm at. In the Heart of Darkness here.
You can function in today's society just fine, it's just less convenient.
But the problem here is not only that you need a smartphone to begin with, but also one specifically from either Google or Apple. Having something else (like a phone with Sailfish or GrapheneOS or any other custom rom) also doesn't work.
I am switching to graphene OS first chance I get, it should be this summer, damn the consequences.
I lived most of my life without any type of cell phone let alone a smart one. I'm going back to our roots, to reject this techno fascist bullshit it's only downhill from here on their gear.
Yes, please. The more users we have on Graphene the harder we are to ignore as a user base.
The general crowd doesn't seem to care about the trends that make graphene common sense and I suspect that Google would take measures if it ever did like they're currently doing to fdroid.
In at least some sectors, even this enshitified EU should be forced to stop Google from being anti-competitive towards graphene to some extent.
The US is fucked but I don't know about the rest of the world necessarily, kind of a free-for-all right now.
They are working on their "own" phone which should alleviate a fair number of concerns with what Google might be doing to sabotage them.
Yet, will they be able to develop their own OS when google stop sharing the code with them ? I do hope so...
i'm glad to know this!!! do you have any more info?
They're working with Motorola.
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
oic, i was already aware of motorola's partnership; i thought you meant that graphene was going to make their own phone.
thanks anyways, though; it's nice when people respond in good faith.
Same here. I'm waiting for Motorola to join in.
That's actually a really good point! 🤔
These are so useless. A barrier that is likely already broken by bots.
I think I read on a lemmy post the other day that archive.is... kills babies? I don't remember what it was, but that they're bad and shouldn't be used because of the badness.
Apparenly DDOSing a blog iirc. You're not allowed to use it over at the Europe community because of it.
DDOSing a blog that was doing free work for Big Copyright and Big Paywall by trying to doxx the archive.is operator.
So it begins.
Isn't scanning random QR codes super risky? This is just begging to be abused....
Absolutely
I never trusted it, I've never my life scanned a QR code with my phone. But I never learned about it so whatever I just naturally do not trust anything computer.
Send an email to their webmaster if you haven't already. The more of us, the better.
Really only way to fight back... There are alternatives to this shit
it feels like an updated version of "strongly worded letter"
If you click the eye icon at the bottom you can go back the original captcha. For now at least.
Also I have no idea why archive.is uses reCAPTCHA from google! You've set up monaro as your only donation system so clearly you care about privacy but you haven't implemented an open source captcha?
Yeah, their privacy, not yours, evidently
Prove I'm human? Sure... [closes tab]
That's what google's been using to lockout non official Android forks like GrapheneOS. You can click on the eye icon at the bottom to get the regular captcha though... for now.
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Ah yes, my very real human ability of scanning QR codes. Truly an inherent characteristic of humanity.
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I would assume this was trying to deliver malware if I ever saw it
It arguably is malware.
It'll certainly cause more people to get malware by normalizing people to scan QR codes on a whim without thinking
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reCAPTCHA protects. your privacy and does not share your details with this website or app.
We foxes promise not to let any predators into the henhouse.
reCAPTCHA protects. your privacy
I love how they used that period. Seems way better than that lawyer guy from the Simpsons.
They said it wasn't shared with the website. They didn't say it wasn't shared with anyone at all.
Reminds me of those privacy policies. "We don't sell your data!" in the big type. When you dig more into the fine print... they don't! But they do "share it within their partner family of companies". And then THOSE companies sell it. Or sometimes, sell inferences made from it, even if not sell the data.
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Any service implementing this shit will be on my list of never using it again. Even if my bank do such shit I'll be moving to another one. Zero tolerancy. This is beyond the limits.
It's easy to say this now. But what if, in a few years, 90% of websites and service providers use this?
I'll be done using the internet!
I agree, and this is strictly because Google wants to kill forks like Graphene OS. Anybody who implements this is going to get their tab immediately closed on my browser and I'm never going back. I will have zero tolerance for this.
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