1. People without a mobile device are fucked out of being able to pass a captcha

2. As if this isn't a way for them to associate multiple sessions on multiple specific devices with one another, this is just another avenue for data collection, period. Hidden under the guise of "more secure."

Looks like a very good way to shoo actual humans off of your website.

Nice captcha. Would be a shame if someone intentionally injected malicious code that had users scan a QR code under the guise of security.

There's no way this is ADA compliant.

Verifying you have a phone doesn't verify that you're human.

I once saw fake captcha scam that reuired scaning QR code to infect device. It looks exactly like that.

I know it has been said already but how stupid is it to teach users the pattern of randomly scanning QR codes. So ironic given that reCaptcha is for security in some sense.

Without a google account there will be many sites I can't visit. I'll look at such sites the same way as I look at paywalled sites.

1. Hype up AI.

2. Everyone starts scraping the internet to obtain training data for their AI.

3. To block the scrapers, countless sites implement stricter bot detection tools.

4. The owners of the bot detection tools now effectively hold all of the internet by its throat, deciding who can access what and extorting more and more data from you to verify you're human.

Fucking genius.

No malicious site would ever fake this kind of flow in order to get someone to scan a dangerous QR code. Nope, that would never happen.

One more reason to not use google anything

Any website that chooses to use this service will simply not get my traffic. If enough people feel the same, those websites will lose clicks and eventually tell Google to pound sand.

Imagine the utter hubris on these fuckers to think that people will get a google device just to access a website.

Or to think that an average user sitting at home would run to another room to grab their phone so they can verify themselves on the desktop just to visit blackcougar.com

If you haven’t already divested from Google and its related services then now is the time.

That's it. JavaScript was a mistake. Time to go back to HTML only pages

So Linux users are fucked?

Fuck absolutely everything about this.

We are making side loading harder because scammers are using "these" tactics to install malware on your devices.

It's totally fine when we use the same tactics to install malware on your device.

LOL, fuck off. How about instead I move on to somewhere less hostile toward the user instead?

Oh boy! Another way to fingerprint your devices! Scammer are sleeping good tonight with these new verifications

Many humans don't have smart phones

No.

How soon before reCAPTCHA-encumbered sites are blocked on desktops entirely unless you're on ChromeOS or the upcoming AluminumOS?

Is an android emulator able to bypass this? Just curious - I haven't started the degoogle process.

@cypherpunks the mere idea of requiring a device to use another is absurd. This should be illegal

Just another reason to not use Google.

A good way to force the user to use by Google controlled devices and to download Google services for more control by Google. Also a good way that the user show the middle finger to Google, using alternatives.