I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOS
2026-05-10 16:17 UTC
Replies (40)
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@meowmeow@quokk.au 2026-05-10 16:21
Can we trust that isn’t a campaign to promote Google? What are these websites? Why aren’t they blocking an iPhone? Can any of that be replicated or is this just a Google campaign to create fear and doubt
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@m105@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-10 16:28
well, I guess i will stop using those websites from my /e/os fairphone
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@ISOmorph@feddit.org 2026-05-10 16:19
That would only make me install Graphene even harder if I wasn’t already writing from a phone with it
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@AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2026-05-10 16:50
This is really bad even just from the perspective of user behavior. Training people to scan QR codes from anything that looks like a captcha box is HORRIBLE for security. “Thanks for scanning the code, just one more step! Please input your phone number, and type in the code you receive.” Boom, account stolen.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 17:35
AnDrOiD iS oPeN sOuRcE
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@AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2026-05-10 16:46
This does seem to work with sandboxed Google Play Services on GrapheneOS btw. I scanned the demo QR code on Google’s talk page about it with sandboxed Play Services enabled and it gave me a custom popup asking if I’d like to verify.
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@magnue@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 18:00
Big flex
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@Carrot@lemmy.today 2026-05-10 18:00
I don’t use the internet for much these days, but I am on graphine OS and I have yet to be blocked from websites due to it. My adblocker prevents me from some, and not allowing javascript prevents me from some, but I’ve never seen that QR code or had any site prompt fro Google play services
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@DukeNukem@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-10 18:31
I had one of these CAPTCHAs recently and it still gave me the option to verify by clicking the squares. I wouldn’t be surprised if they phased out the ‘legacy’ verification though.
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@irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-10 18:35
Are there any examples of sites using this?
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@DungeonTreasureHunt@piefed.social 2026-05-10 18:43
One more reason to switch to a Linux phone like Jollas new phone.
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@Skeletal4420@lemmy.ml 2026-05-10 18:56
It’s funny, I hadn’t noticed, maybe because any site aleeady using reCAPTCHA or cloudflare alreadt gets blocked by my ad blocker… If those sites can’t do better on their own, its just another thing you don’t need. This is kind of a nothing burger. Stay strong and let google commit suicide.
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@godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 2026-05-10 19:02
How do you even scan a QR code if you’re browsing on your phone?
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@ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 2026-05-10 19:38
what will this mean for the upcoming motorola phones that can come with gOS installed?
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@candyman337@piefed.ca 2026-05-10 19:17
Does this only happen on chrome? Can you just bypass it by using another browser like firefox?
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@phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 19:45
If google requires me to permit other companies to leech all my personal data to be able to use anything on the Internet at all, I say we label Google, Microsoft, Apple as criminal organizations I’m sorry, bit there have to be limits. I. DO. NOT. WANT. TO. USE. ANYTHING. GOOGLE. OR APPLE. OR MICROSOFT. FUCK ALL THESE OLIGARCH COMPANIES INTO THE GROUND I do not want my private data leeches and sold every day, I don’t even get paid for it
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@utopiah@lemmy.ml 2026-05-10 19:46
FUD.
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@PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2026-05-10 20:27
And you couldn’t use your current phone for that? That is in cases where you have no choice left, and where your identity is known regardless. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good: just because this anti-feature may not work, doesn’t mean you can’t have better standards overall (assuming you’re coming from a regular OS).
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@CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2026-05-10 21:33
Not noticed it and fuck those websites. Happy to boycott.
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@GMac@feddit.org 2026-05-10 21:47
You can still go graphene and isolate play services in a secondary profile. For a better future: Organisations and services that structure themselves to require third party services need to take contractual responsibility for the actions in their fulfillment supply chain, just as an online retailer takes responsibility for delivery agents. Google play services harvesting needs to be reflected in the privacy policy of every company that doesn’t provide alternative access. Wonder what will happen if we all start making data protection complaints about enforced non contractual third party data harvesting?
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@redparadise@lemmygrad.ml 2026-05-10 22:48
Makes GrapheneOS even more essential, get a 2nd hand Pixel if you don’t want to directly support Google.
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@Vytle@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 23:14
I’m running a Pixel 8 rn. Should I deadass switch to an iPhone ATP?
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@Geodes_n_Gems@lemmy.ml 2026-05-10 23:21
Smartphones are such an utter wretch nowadays, & I’m not even sure if there was a time they weren’t. I don’t get the appeal of a smartphone, they do everything a dumbphone does but worse, more expensive & with an unremovable thick layer of scum, yeah a smartphone has some of the features of a laptop or desktop but who needs that baked into their phone for every moment? People are trying so hard to fix smartphones (even by giving money to the least privacy respecting companies ever by buying Google phones) when they can get a dumbphone and be rid of those problems in the first place. Well that’s my opinion at least, I think it might be a bit extreme.
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@yogthos@lemmy.ml 2026-05-10 23:57
I’m using Firefox on GrapheneOS and recaptcha still works normally for me.
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@Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 2026-05-11 00:08
Eventually privacy minded people like us will have to start creating and visiting sites on the dark web.
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@auzy1@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 00:20
I really wish Jolla got their crap together honestly
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@lemmylump@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 23:32
When my current iPhone dies, I’m never having a smartphone ever again.
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@w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 01:37
Using graphene on pixel 7 pro. Haven’t noticed.
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@razen@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 22:06
They should be fined so hard for this shit.
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@pirate2377@lemmy.zip 2026-05-10 21:40
Welp, everyone buy a Google Pixel 3a from eBay and install Ubuntu Touch I guess
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@Batmorous@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 08:41
We seriously need to ask Valve to make SteamOS phones. Not only will they be good for gaming but imagine being able to put other OS’es on it like PC’s. Bazzite, PostmarketOS, etc. Plus Valve will still get revenue from people using the upcoming Steam ARM Game Store, and the current Bannerhub/Gamenative community android apps that enable playing PC games they own from Steam/GOG on Phones Its such a huge opportunity that we all should be encouraging then to pursue now and after they release their current 3 big projects: Steam Controllers, Steam Machines, Steam Frames
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@kadotux@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-11 09:11
phew, feels like I jumped the ship just in time. Installed PostmarketOS on my Fairphone a couple of months ago, and I’m not looking back.
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@magnue@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 11:17
If you’re serious about it probably worth just using an old phone as an Auth device and only switch it on for that and still use graphene as your daily driver.
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@greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-11 11:05
I’m not a security guy, what is the problem that this is supposed to be fixing? Like I guess you wouldn’t be able to use a virtuallised os to visit your banking website? Like I understand if you work for a bank you should only be able to access some things from specific computers, but normal people?
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@cockmushroom@reddthat.com 2026-05-11 12:31
Choosing not to buy one now isn’t going to help anything at all.
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@xorollo@leminal.space 2026-05-11 14:16
To anyone not switching because of this-- in my experience this is something I can work around. On most websites my captchas still work. I have had a few that dont work, and I just close the website and move on. It hasn’t happened on any websites that are very important for me to visit. Usually its a store and they really me to install their stupid app. Nope.
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@neo2478@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-11 12:13
Don’t give money to google by buying Pixel phones. Even buying used, creates demand as people are more likely to keep upgrading every year as they know it will be easy to sell their used Pixels for a good price.
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@blinfabian@feddit.nl 2026-05-11 15:27
i havent noticed anything? except youtube being slow as always i supposr (/e/os user)
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@kepix@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 15:29
graphene can have the play service, but in a sandbox. anything other than that uses microg so its emulated. probably needs some time to get up to speed. if not, just use the desktop site instead of mobile. i dont really see this as much of a threat to any of us.
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@FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2026-05-11 17:09
Sounds like the other shoe just dropped on all the people who’ve been religiously swearing by GrapheneOS. If it’s based on Google: They can control it. You won’t ever catch me utilizing “alternative” chromium providers exactly because of shit like this lol