cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47972724
i encountered this for the first time today while attempting to read something on archive.today.
i confirmed that decoding the qrcode using a computer and following the URL it contains is insufficient; the error it gave directed me here which is what the linked screenshot is of.
the old type of captcha remains available too, for now:
...just use a different website?
As easy as eating cake.
Everyone needs to fail the test over and over again until they fall back to their non-we want to fuck everyone over even more world.
I got one of these. They had accessibility options so I just did the auditory one. It says a couple words, you write them out, and you're done. Like hell am I using a Phone for this shit.
LOL, fuck off. How about instead I move on to somewhere less hostile toward the user instead?
Just another reason to not use Google.
Nah. Block all fingerprinting. You don't need any of this crap.
aaaaaand tab closed.
I once saw fake captcha scam that reuired scaning QR code to infect device. It looks exactly like that.
I once made QR code stickers that placed people on a website warning them to stop trusting QR codes.
I spent a year traveling and everywhere I saw a QR code my sticker QR code went over it.
You target the right locations and spoof the website and you can get credit card, phone, email, address. Svan this QR code for 20% off blah blah blah.
Do use them.
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.
malware is bytecode Google didn't approve of. when google spies on you, that's just "legitimate interest"
Verifying you have a phone doesn't verify that you're human.
Just like Recaptchas haven't been a challenge to bots for a long time. Still, we had to deal with this shit. Makes you wonder if it's just a stupid fucking pretext... 🤔
Isn't it training for AI and automated cars?
Used to be, yeah. But this part of computer vision has been a solved problem for a while now. Captchas still remained for the sole purpose of annoying the living fuck out of people like you and me. Well, until Google figured out Captchas could be weaponised for (gestures) whatever this is.
FWIW I've found passing it through my local SearxNG usually gives me a clean path to the content. But it's seriously worrying that some of the blocked content is publically available science (e.g. PMC Bioinformatics). But that should not be necessary, at this point a search engine should be a public resource. Fuck Google.
Hype up AI.
Everyone starts scraping the internet to obtain training data for their AI.
To block the scrapers, countless sites implement stricter bot detection tools.
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.
People without a mobile device are fucked out of being able to pass a captcha
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."
It really should be illegal to build systems that require a user's access to any unrelated technology. You shouldn't be forced to have a phone to pay a parking fee or to get on the bus. You shouldn't need an app to charge your car. You shouldn't need to use proprietary software from one spesific company to pass a captcha on a random site.
I imagine scammers are already thinking of ways to use this for phishing too
Captcha has been one of the greatest google acquisitions ever.
They acquired it under the guise of improving OCR and have since morphed it into an AI data farm (how else is google lens gonna know what objects are what?) and now total insight into a users every single action from desktop to mobile, tying it all together into a surveillance nightmare.
I can guess the permissions that the recaptcha app needs now. Probably something akin to root access with all datapoints and considerations you could think of.
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.
Fuck absolutely everything about this.
Looks like a very good way to shoo actual humans off of your website.
Sorry, my faith in users is basically zero. These dummies will go to websites that tell them to copy code and run it with win+r. They're morons and will do anything if a website promises them something.
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.
It's the same with ID verification. For your safety you need to start giving random websites your drivers license or passport..
That's it. JavaScript was a mistake. Time to go back to HTML only pages
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Nice captcha. Would be a shame if someone intentionally injected malicious code that had users scan a QR code under the guise of security.
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
They're using the fact that everyone else both already owns a Google or iOS device, and does everything on those devices, to punish desktop and alt mobile OS users.
The fact that this is going on right as AluminumOS is down the pipes, and right as rigged parts prices threaten to kill desktops as an option to begin with makes this especially sus.
The way things are going right now, I won't be surprised if we see a computing future where you're either on a Google or Apple-controlled device, or you're on a thin client tied to a cloud subscription, and you won't own your tech anymore.
Bezos' 'Give up your PC and rent from our cloud' threat is sounding less and less like a threat and more and more likely to become reality.
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.
How soon before reCAPTCHA-encumbered sites are blocked on desktops entirely unless you're on ChromeOS or the upcoming AluminumOS?
On the bright side, this means they are really worried that privacy practices such as those popular among the Lemmy crowd can make their surveillance expensive or maybe even impractical at scale, rather than profitable. I'm never sure if it's working, with firmware and all. Almost a good sign? Am I deluded?
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