Post #2551172
2026-05-08 03:13 UTC
This requirement will kick in the moment the system suspects suspicious activity. At that point, reCAPTCHA will forgo the old image puzzles and require you to scan a QR code with your smartphone to prove you’re human. Although this will stop an autonomous bot in its tracks, it also adds another step to verification. But the problem runs a little deeper than the annoyance of a single additional step.
I didn’t see what the spec of this new recaptcha is but my first thought is an android emulator and a free google account combined with whatever bot/LLM wants to pass through is probably going to be what happens.
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@JackbyDev@programming.dev 2026-05-08 03:19
And as we all know, they’re going to say that not using a Genuine™ Android® Operating System is extremely suspicious.