Comment on Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 14 hours agoThey can definetly use signals like VPN usage, not allowing third-party cookies and whatever else to force this verification mode if they want to. They may not be doing it right now but nothing prevents them.
athatet@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Me not using their garbage internet does indeed stop them from doing it to me.
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
It’s reCAPTCHA. What “their garbage internet” are you referring to? The singular internet, the one you’re on right now? reCAPTCHA is used on tons of websites. It used to be useful until Google turned it into a machine learning training tool rather than a bot filtering tool.
athatet@lemmy.zip 52 minutes ago
Literally yes. I just won’t use that website.