Don’t have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.
Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://docs.cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/hand-gesture-verification
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ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Don’t worry, it will ask you to scan a QR code to complete the verification on your phone.
OutsideBoxYouMustThink@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That made me chuckle
wonderfulvoltaire@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Jokes aside don’t give them ideas
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I always buy the cheapest phone and usually they dont have built in qr code scanner. My current phone doesnt. And no, im not downloading some shitty feature-stuffed adware app just to scan qr codes
thousandyardstare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Drink verification can
Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Absolutely not. Go fuck yourselves. There’s not a person in the world who I would do this for.
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Came to say this. I’m not uploading my ID so I can check my emails. I’m not turning on a camera so I can log into a website.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So what’s stopping me from using OBS as a “software webcam” and feeding it a stream of stock footage of someone waving their hand?
Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
IDew@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This…
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
It can try, but I'm not doing that. I will stop using everything that requires it.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yep. If the web requires ID to do anything I will only use it for banking and shit I already give my ID to. For everything else I’ll just pirate, or use tor/I2P until they lock me up.
All these fascist criminal pedophiles that want to control us can suck a big fat bag of dicks.
MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yep. We’ll make our own internet. And it won’t have recaptcha
The_Grinch@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Me neither… So are people like us just going to make our own internet or what? Because it’s getting kind of hard not having access to 90% of things without logging in anymore.
dudesss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers
- f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
- grapheneos.org postmarketos.org
- www.fairphone.com commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
- librewolf.net www.waterfox.com
- codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
- www.ecosia.org qwant.com searxng.org
- immich.app nextcloud.com
- www.comaps.app + f-droid.org/…/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.a…
- signal.org element.io/en
- chat.mistral.ai/chat
- bitwarden.com joplinapp.org
- www.qobuz.com
- f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
- tuta.com/secure-email
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
degoogle for privacy still use AI chatbot
Bruh
foreverunsure@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I think such an all-or-nothing mindset is exactly why people are staying on megacorp services. Besides, Mistral is much more transparent about its data collection, unlike Google, which makes you disable all chat history if you want to prevent training on your inputs.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I generally favor local LLM usage, but I will sometimes use Kagi’s assistant tools. I trust them to throw out my data a fuckton more than I do Google.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.
RadicalRebel@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Same!
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Privacy nightmare aside, is it just me or does this sound a lot less secure than the find the bus bullshit they do now? Seems like it would be much easier for a bot to generate a realistic looking hand wave than interpret increasingly obscure photo puzzles.
MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well right. But they can’t collect your photo and other data that way.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Jokes on them, I have no webcam.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Me either…
But you do have a cellphone with camera and mic
this@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fuck that
calliope@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Saying “WILL” is clickbait.
As many have pointed out, they can’t force this.
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They 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 3 weeks ago
Me not using their garbage internet does indeed stop them from doing it to me.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
Its Google, they will try. “This is the only way to accesss your emails.”
llama@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So can I just use the OBS virtual camera with a video of somebody waving
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Uh yeah, it more certainly will not.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Google can turn on my webcam all it wants. They can’t see through the sticky tape anyways.
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I still wouldn’t want google capturing my body and my home even through the filter of sticky tape. even if it’s pitch black, I can’t rule out that they’re not fingerprinting whatever they can find that’s unique about my camera’s sensor.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
They can’t turn on a webcam that doesn’t exist. I have no intention of connecting one to my desktops.
zerofk@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Waving is something robots already could in the 80s.
siravious@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s it, I’m rewatching Short Circuit now
roserose56@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And it says “When the hand gesture feature is enabled, reCAPTCHA collects the following data:”.
When it gets forced, we talk again.The_Grinch@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
This is the narrow end of the wedge. Once it’s forced it will already be too late.
Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Web cam? I don’t have one on my computer, what now?
asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
What will happen if I wave my dick and masturbate instead?
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Can the AI identify which finger I’m waving too?
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I have a Mac, so it has things like WiFi and Bluetooth that most Wintel boxes don’t tend to have. (I used to build PCs. I know those motherboards exist, and what it costs over base to get those features. So I know they exist and why they’re not common.) What it does not have is a camera. My MacBook has one, but any site that wants to use it needs to ask permission first. When I say no, it does not see the camera. It’s not saying “I see camera, can I use it” it’s asking “can I use camera?” An answer of no returns the message “no camera.”
I suspect it’s the same with all platforms. Meaning anyone who wants this can use it and the rest of us will just default to identifying sidewalks to train the cars.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If I have to do face verification at some point I am using a pic of Harold. I am almost 70.
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t AI work great for this, what with those AIs that turn Reddit mods into anime cosplayer girls?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Copypasta.
charokol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like one of these things that people are scared is going to happen but will never actually happen
deadcream@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Chinese corporations and government have been doing this shit for years. Trying to use alipay on a trip to China was a dystopian nightmare lol. USA has only just started to catch up to them in terms of digital surveillance. This stuff and things like “Flock” that Americans are freaking out about right now are a completely normal fact of life over there.
noxypaws@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
you haven’t been paying attention
molestme247@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
they gunna see my nuts
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well, not me.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Fuck you, Google.
ContactClosure@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Oh I’m gonna wave some stuff at them.
Wildone@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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