Google is rolling in mobile verification to ReCAPTCHA, requiring an approved phone and if on Android, a Google account.
Privacy-based phones will be locked out of this. You can choose between remaining secure and private or viewing a website using Google’s ReCAPTCHA service.
Can you technically install Google Play Services on GraphineOS? Obviously, it would be a major hit to your privacy compared to the previous system, but still technically possible…
Yes, play services can be installed and used on Graphene, I have it installed currently and it meets the version requirements set forth in the FAQ.
That being said, there’s speculation in the groups that Google will eventually go the same way with this as they did for locking out privacy users from the Google Pay system, saying it’s not a trusted OS. This could very well end the same way. I can see a ton of people dipping their toes in the waters of privacy-based operating systems on their phones to go back to Google’s Android because they don’t want to lose access to every single site that uses ReCAPTCHA in far greater numbers than were persuaded by locking them out of pay services.
Yes? It’s officially supported, too. It sandboxes Google play and limits its system access
As we know, only humans are capable of reading QR codes.
That’s not the point of the QR code. The point is Google is requiring a certified Google account and phone to allow access. Privacy-based phones are not welcome. I would suggest closing the tab when these pop up.
reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification is the section at the bottom that’s relevant.
Yikes. I was imagining they were only trying to trick people into using their phones that could be tracked (in addition to jumping through arbitrarily placed hoops in the traditional captcha style) not that they were actually requiring a phone running Google spyware. That’s insane.
I thought this was a scam, but apparently it’s just Google??
Both
Is there a difference?
If I were to ever encounter that, I’d just Ctrl+W.
cc @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world stop using archive.is‽
is internet archive the only alternative?
there’s https://ghostarchive.org/
folks can also mirror their own.
In anddition to the tracking use, this also works to verify if the account being used to verify is adult or not.
I guarantee you, this is not the use case.
Either way, it’s a bad thing
I agree completely
My initial thought wasn’t communicated in the first post; people may not link the tracking to the age verification or vice versa.
This does feel like an a/b test to slowly introduce an entirely different level of tracking and privacy invasion.
Ah. You’re right. Not everyone is/was aware of this taking place before this post, and its implications.
