Post #2475364
2026-05-12 04:30 UTC
So #Google is doing this now.
This is an actual thing #reCAPTCHA is doing now.
Google. Honey. Bro. You need to put a domestic violence survivor, or at least someone whose job it is to think like a stalker onto every single product management team you have, because the teams you've got are putting forth such bad ideas and NOBODY FEELS EMPOWERED TO TELL THEM SO. Or they just don't listen.
Training people to open whatever QR code a website shows them on their phone is a massively bad idea. I'm honestly not going to be surprised to see an official reCAPTCHA version of the "paste this into the Run dialog box and press enter to prove you're human" scam.
From a #digitalprivacy standpoint, this allows Google to associate your browser fingerprint with your mobile device fingerprint, if they haven't already. "Don't be evil" my muscular buttocks.
If you see this, choose one of the other options to verify (the headphone or eye icons at the bottom).
Replies (4)
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@jeffmcneill@hachyderm.io 2026-05-12 05:00
@uberduck@hachyderm.io Click the "eye" and it should let you in...
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@spitfire@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 06:54
@uberduck@hachyderm.io they’ve removed that phrase from their ethos a long time ago…
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@andrew@bne.social 2026-05-12 07:00
@uberduck@hachyderm.io RIP any service that uses reCAPTCHA (they are all dead to me now 😑)
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@ghard@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 15:28
@uberduck@hachyderm.io I think rather than choosing the alternative verification mode, I’ll just take my eyeballs and/or business elsewhere.