• Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.

  • Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification.

  • This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

  • Zak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    185·
    4 days ago

    That means if Google’s verification system gets widely adopted, browsing the web could become a headache.

    Using a phone to scan a QR code in order to access a website on my desktop is a headache even if it has no dependencies in particular.

    • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      4 days ago

      Unless it was the website I needed inorder to receive an organ donation, I would just close it.

      I could claim that’s an act of righteous protest, but really I just know that absent my needing a new liver, there’s no website I would ever care enough about to get me to scan a QR code just to keep browsing.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      4 days ago

      I have, multiple times, had to take a screenshot, send it to another device, and then display that QR code on that device so I can scan it. Nothing about using phones isn’t a headache.

        • systemglitch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          I spend most of my day without a phone near me. I hate phones, this won’t encourage me to do anything but pull further away.

          I suppose that is a win. Real life isn’t happening on a screen.