Post #2416721

2026-05-11 11:05 UTC

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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@jabberwock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-11 12:20

It’s intended to be a successor to the current reCAPTCHA, sold as harder to spoof than current picture-based versions. Now, almost from its start, CAPTCHA existed to train AI vision models. So Google basically painted themselves into a corner using free labor to train models good enough to recognize images, now they are switching to device signals. That said, they’re going to have to provide a compatibility layer for iOS which AFAIK doesn’t come with Google Play Services right now. So I have some faith in the smart folks who make these de-shittified OSes working something out via microG or the like.

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@rumba@lemmy.zip 2026-05-11 14:28

They’re claiming it security authentication. Realistically, it’s keeping people in their walled garden. You can use a web browser on a Linux computer and get right through, this change is to force people to only run latest generation google products. This would also block people from using real google phones over a certain age where they cannot upgrade the OS anymore.

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