Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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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.
The QR code point to https://recaptcha.net/qr/mMs9S9g8
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.
In china it's the norm. And I was feeling the same way, until I realized china takes way better care of its citizens vs USA. Everything is convenient, healthcare, etc.
This YouTuber goes into pretty good daily life of avg Chinese users.
In rural areas, don't many Chinese not have running water? That doesn't sound like they are taken care of.
I don't know the answer to that, I've only been to Beijing.
But overall, id argue with healthcare, public transit, building a new hospital when covid hit specifically for it, it seems like they're doing better than nickel and diming them to death like USA. It costs money to breath here. Their EV setup is off the charts too. Even Ford CEO complimented it and drives a Chinese EV.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-jim-farley-xiaomi-tesla-chinese-ev-2026-4
Chinese new chargers - https://youtube.com/shorts/KhoRJQUA6dA
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.
Switch to GrapheneOS anyway. If a website forces verification with a phone that passes strict Play Integrity with no other options, then don't use it, or use a $30 Walmart phone if you must.
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 hope and think so. They're already way better and faster than Google at patching bugs and vulnerabilities on Android.
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?
Prove I'm human? Sure... [closes tab]
