Can I just moon it instead?
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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I’ve got one hand gesture for them!
These companies that feel entitled to our data have long ago lost the benefit of the doubt. You make money off of my personal information, you have also proved time and again you don't always obtain consent before collecting it, (not even buried in some EULA or disclosure) so no, I will not record myself and upload it to you...
The fact that the show is a dude shooting another just raises this patent to the next level
Please drink a verification can.
Fuck. That. No website is worth that.
Ppl say this with such conviction but what about your bank website? What if it becomes industry standard and you have no other options? Just going to keep all your money in cash?
...yes? Some of us are really hardline about stuff. I appreciate the convenience of my bank, but I have learned that if you have loyalty of an outside company, business, etc, you are their bitch. Now me, I don't mind being a bitch, but it's for select people. Companies can lick on my balls and suck the dick. I almost closed a credit card with several-thousand dollars in credit because they wanted to verify my person. That was a potential fraud situation though, so after a couple days I decided that is a mutual benefit to keep the card and proceed with the verification.
But this shit? Nah. I've closed other accounts (some financial), for lesser reasoning, in the past.
I have a hard time believing all banks, including local credit unions, will simultaneously adopt this tech. And if they all do, maybe will I have to consider cash after all. But in the meantime, I'll switch to a banking solution that doesn't.
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I deleted my banking app off my phone because it asked me for a selfie lol. I will absolutely switch banks over this.
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that’s gonna be a “nope” from me, dawg.
Easy!
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"Drink verification can."
Turns out, I am no longer human
Future headline: Gemini sign language interpreter frequently flips the bird to absolutely everyone.
We're not sure how this got into the training data...
I'll close that website page so fast they'll give me a speeding ticket. And then a permanent piece of tape goes over my webcam.
The tech giant says the system only analyzes hand-movement points from a short video, does not record audio, and deletes the footage after verification.
It's just a short video guys, there's even no audio! And they pinky promise to delete it.
What a fucking shitshow that is. Like, honestly, I'm fine with regular captchas, even if they are the shitty ones. The newer (?) captchas that force you to do solve 5 bullshit "place this there" captchas are already reason enough for me to just leave the site. But if you force me to record a video of me throwing gang signs at the camera, probably several times again, because the movement was not correctly identified, I'm sure as fuck to never visit anything related to you ever again.
I also love the irony that Google fights ~~people~~ bots, while they are scraping the whole internet and investing into AI automation massively.
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Fuck no.
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I guess I know which hand gesture I'll be making
Fun fact: Phone cameras now have enough resolution for AI to get your fingerprints off a photo
Meanwhile in india is spinning company of Indians of waving hands to cameras.
And you can be identived based on camera uniqueness, background image, hand shape.
Recent Advances in Deep Learning-Based Source Camera Identification and Device Linking
indians:
Nope, just gonna browse away.
OK, so how does this work for things without cameras? They exist, I am using one right now. Does it just fail, does it default to another method?
You just lose access to the internet eventually.
Maybe google's internet. But not the whole thing.
Just guessing here but they'll have to fall back to other means, which defeats the purpose of screening for bots. But this being google and their main source of revenue being advertising, i'm guessing they're gonna use this technology to develop proof you're watching the ads you're shown
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Asks you to make gang signs and automatically adds you to the ICE database.
This is the automation we have all been waiting for
... I have no camera.
This new CAPTCHA's prejudicial and exclusionary.
Not to mention grotesquely invasive.
Some people have no hands. Are those people supposed to wave their stump around? What about people who don't even have stumps?
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Here you go. 🖕
Im so sick of this stuff.
Time to go live in a van by the river.
They're coming hard for van life too btw.
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. We have to mend this. And we can still mend this.
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I have a hand gesture for it.
This would mean they can access your camera when ever they want. This is why I always put a piece of tape over mine.
No, just like for any other website, the browser would ask you for permission before enabling your camera.
(not an endorsement of the captcha)
This is the biggest "hell no" thing I'll probably see this week.
So, training AI to read hands more correctly, or trying to make an AI sign language interpreter.
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