Post #2398628

2026-05-10 16:48 UTC

What they are doing is way worse tban what you understood. These QR codes will show on your Desktop PC and you will need an Android phone or an iOS device with a logged in Google QR code app to get past it.

Replies (5)

@kalpol@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 17:17

I wouldn’t scan shit from a website. Random QR codes are a security risk. Just won’t visit that website.

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@drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-10 17:19

so they are not only tracking you, but they are trying to reconnect your records across multiple devices.

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@bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-10 17:51

Is it bad I use this for steam login? I thought that was secure …

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@fartographer@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 01:44

I am in no way condoning Google’s behavior, nor am I trying to normalize it. With that out of the way: maybe running Android Studio with an AVD might be a decent workaround. For now…

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@Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2026-05-11 02:22

Guess I’m not going to Youtube, then. I see a future where we have our mandated government ID shitphone for banking, corpo and government suchn’shit, and the laptop we access Anna’s, Yggdrasil and TOR with. and the days go by! Not exactly same as it ever was, but seems kinda 2007 to me. I doubt any Lemmy instance or i2p site will enforce Google’s QRcode spy-proxy.

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