Post #2379114

2026-05-09 08:08 UTC

What is supposed to happen with desktops here? If they require a phone to pass the captcha on the desktop that is already a huge issue and many people will complain about that regardless of play services.

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@dfx4509b@friendica.world 2026-05-09 08:15

@iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world @LeapSecond@lemmy.zip If AluminumOS takes off, desktops are going to be Google's next destruction target.

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@FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-09 13:19

IDK but recapatch hasn’t worked for me on desktop. Since like… forever. What happens is… I click the squares that contains the stairs. Or motorcycles, traffic lights, buses, w/e. Try to guess whether a sq counts if there are like 2 pixels of railing. Is railing part of the stairs? IDK. Doesn’t matter tho. Google rejects anything I try and displays another captcha. Same result with that one. Fucking endlessly. It will NEVER let me past. I’ve tried some dozens in a row. I think that is because G can’t ID me to a particular human. So it does not matter how I answer them. “You shall not pass.” G had a patent on “endless rejection” techniques. Instead of an outright block, it presents you with infinite unsolvable captchas. Someone once analyzed web based recapatcha. Their conclusion was, G isn’t trying to figure out whether you are human. It’s trying to figure out WHICH human you are. It’s identity resolution, not bot detection. If it can’t get a high enough confidence estimate, you get denied. Sometimes with infinite captchas. Yay. Let’s make this asshole company the gatekeeper to the fucking internet.

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