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Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand
(docs.cloud.google.com)
Fuck you, Google.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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Don't have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.
Don't worry, it will ask you to scan a QR code to complete the verification on your phone.
That made me chuckle
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Absolutely not. Go fuck yourselves. There's not a person in the world who I would do this for.
Came to say this. I'm not uploading my ID so I can check my emails. I'm not turning on a camera so I can log into a website.
So what's stopping me from using OBS as a virtual camera and feeding it a stream of stock footage of someone waving their hand?
This...
It can try, but I'm not doing that. I will stop using everything that requires it.
Yep. If the web requires ID to do anything I will only use it for banking and shit I already give my ID to. For everything else I'll just pirate, or use tor/I2P until they lock me up.
All these fascist criminal pedophiles that want to control us can suck a big fat bag of dicks.
Yep. We'll make our own internet. And it won't have recaptcha
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For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.
Same!
Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers
- https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
- https://grapheneos.org/ * https://postmarketos.org/
- https://www.fairphone.com/ * https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
- https://librewolf.net/ * https://www.waterfox.com/
- https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox * https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
- https://www.ecosia.org/ * https://qwant.com/ * https://searxng.org/
- https://immich.app/ * https://nextcloud.com/
- https://www.comaps.app/ + https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
- https://signal.org/ * https://element.io/en
- https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
- https://bitwarden.com/ * https://joplinapp.org/
- https://www.qobuz.com/
- https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ * https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
- https://tuta.com/secure-email
degoogle for privacy
still use AI chatbot
Bruh
I generally favor local LLM usage, but I will sometimes use Kagi's assistant tools. I trust them to throw out my data a fuckton more than I do Google.
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I think such an all-or-nothing mindset is exactly why people are staying on megacorp services. Besides, Mistral is much more transparent about its data collection, unlike Google, which makes you disable all chat history if you want to prevent training on your inputs.
All-or-nothing mindset people usually do not comment because they want to be helpful. They are a nuisance.
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Privacy nightmare aside, is it just me or does this sound a lot less secure than the find the bus bullshit they do now? Seems like it would be much easier for a bot to generate a realistic looking hand wave than interpret increasingly obscure photo puzzles.
Well right. But they can't collect your photo and other data that way.
Jokes on them, I have no webcam.
Me either.....
But you do have a cellphone with camera and mic
Fuck that
Saying “WILL” is clickbait.
As many have pointed out, they can’t force this.
They can definetly use signals like VPN usage, not allowing third-party cookies and whatever else to force this verification mode if they want to. They may not be doing it right now but nothing prevents them.
Me not using their garbage internet does indeed stop them from doing it to me.
It's reCAPTCHA. What "their garbage internet" are you referring to? The singular internet, the one you're on right now? reCAPTCHA is used on tons of websites. It used to be useful until Google turned it into a machine learning training tool rather than a bot filtering tool.
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So can I just use the OBS virtual camera with a video of somebody waving
Uh yeah, it most certainly will not.
Google can turn on my webcam all it wants. They can't see through the sticky tape anyways.
I still wouldn't want google capturing my body and my home even through the filter of sticky tape. even if it's pitch black, I can't rule out that they're not fingerprinting whatever they can find that's unique about my camera's sensor.
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And it says "When the hand gesture feature is enabled, reCAPTCHA collects the following data:".
When it gets forced, we talk again.
This is the narrow end of the wedge. Once it's forced it will already be too late.
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Web cam? I don't have one on my computer, what now?
Can the AI identify which finger I'm waving too?
If I have to do face verification at some point I am using a pic of Harold. I am almost 70.
Doesn't AI work great for this, what with those AIs that turn Reddit mods into anime cosplayer girls?
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