Monopoly or Duopoly. Either way, it’s gotta be taken down.
Maybe this is the kick up the arse companies need to finally start using hCaptcha or even Anubis.
I hope so, but it could easily come the other way. “We are so used to/deeply integrated/in a close strategic partnership with Google therefore we rather lose 5 % of our customers that care about privacy and are a pain in the ass for our data-driven business.”
5% is huuuge overestimate. Maybe on a tech site or forum. On a regular website for the general public? Less than a rounding error. Remember, we are in a lemmy bubble
I’ve started the transition away from Google. Sucks because, sometimes, it was really convenient. But now, screw 'em.
I personally have definitely encountered the point where I’m just not going to do some things merely because of “the principle”.
Everyone needs to flood the web with fake reCAPTCHA QR codes that lead to something that looks malicious to the average person.
LOOKS malicious? Why not just BE malicious? That’s way more lucrative if we’re at that point.
Looking malicious just trains users that it’s probably ok to do X on sketchy sites…
Quick question: If Google doesn’t want to own Android anymore, why don’t they make it public domain instead of trying everything to kill it?
Because they’d rather own the public
This is a national security issue. A major corporation should not be able effectively impose a security ceiling by banning more secure operating systems (like GrapheneOS) due to it not making them money. Governments should pass regulations requiring any devices that meet certain security standards and support hardware attestation to be accepted by hardware attestation schemes. This will not pose an undue burden on businesses because you can easily add something like GrapheneOS to your scheme (https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide), and even if it did, that doesn’t matter when national security is on the line.
Right now, it’s not as dire because you can still choose image or audio CAPTCHA, but I don’t know how long that will last, and getting the regulation out before the problem happens is better than after.
This happens on Linux via Edge Suite.
They block my ability to use quite a few websites. I’ve tried changing my user agent amongst many other solutions but it never works. My IP is not blacklisted.
I GUESS YOU DIDNT WANT ME TO BUY ANYTHING ON YOUR GODDAMN SITE ANYWAY.
Recaptcha has been trash for years now. Like, it either doesn’t bock bots, or it blocks actual real people. Don’t use it. Use turnstile.
