• Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.

  • Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification.

  • This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

  • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    5 days ago

    It turns out reCAPCHA has been a privacy nightmare from the beginning: from silently monitoring user activity in the background, to sending payment information to Google; in order for an AI to assess the data, and return a risk-score to the website. But that apparently wasn’t bold enough, and now an effective 2FA is required, which provides additional telemetry to Google (but not to the website or app: which is obviously the privacy concern). So get ready to 2FA with Google upon registration, login, updating your cart, and payment; or to skip the hassle, you should just let an approved “shopping assistant” make purchases for you (“that drive a projected 25% increase in average order value”). I don’t even own a modern Android or iOS device, so how am I supposed to solve these?

    • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
      241·
      5 days ago

      I think I’ll just go to a local store and pay in cash instead. I’m starting to think the Amish have the right idea, anyone know where I can rent a horse and buggy?

      • PierceTheBubble@lemmy.mlEnglish
        61·
        5 days ago

        Yeah, on the rare occasion where I do order something online, and happen to trip up the convoluted system, I rather give the webshop a call, than giving into this dystopian nonsense. And I’ve long done away with any mainstream platforms, which I suspect will happily adopt the system (especially those who forced me to adopt 2FA: which was seemingly just in preparation of this…). I’ll happily function as an example, to illustrate just how morally unjust it is, to effectively force someone to purchase and use a device they explicitly chose not to use; I really want to hear someone justify that.

        I think there’s few people left, which do not believe we’ve gone too far with technology, so the Amish to some extend are definitely onto something.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      google allows V3 version to be used REDDIT , thats why there has ben a huge amount of bans last year. alledgely to catch bots or whatever.