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Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 7 hours ago

Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand

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Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand

docs.cloud.google.com

Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.zipEnglish · 7 hours ago
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Hand gesture verification  |  Google Cloud Fraud Defense  |  Google Cloud Documentation
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    34 minutes ago

    Waving is something robots already could in the 80s.

    • siravious@lemmy.world
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      That’s it, I’m rewatching Short Circuit now

  • dudesss@lemmy.ca
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    Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers

    • https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
    • https://grapheneos.org/ * https://postmarketos.org/
    • https://www.fairphone.com/ * https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
    • https://librewolf.net/ * https://www.waterfox.com/
    • https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox * https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
    • https://www.ecosia.org/ * https://qwant.com/ * https://searxng.org/
    • https://immich.app/ * https://nextcloud.com/
    • https://www.comaps.app/ + https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
    • https://signal.org/ * https://element.io/en
    • https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
    • https://bitwarden.com/ * https://joplinapp.org/
    • https://www.qobuz.com/
    • https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ * https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
    • https://tuta.com/secure-email
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    3 hours ago

    And it says “When the hand gesture feature is enabled, reCAPTCHA collects the following data:”.
    When it gets forced, we talk again.

  • Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Absolutely not. Go fuck yourselves. There’s not a person in the world who I would do this for.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      Came to say this. I’m not uploading my ID so I can check my emails. I’m not turning on a camera so I can log into a website.

  • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz
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    Privacy nightmare aside, is it just me or does this sound a lot less secure than the find the bus bullshit they do now? Seems like it would be much easier for a bot to generate a realistic looking hand wave than interpret increasingly obscure photo puzzles.

    • MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
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      Well right. But they can’t collect your photo and other data that way.

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    Fuck you, Google.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I have a Mac, so it has things like WiFi and Bluetooth that most Wintel boxes don’t tend to have. (I used to build PCs. I know those motherboards exist, and what it costs over base to get those features. So I know they exist and why they’re not common.) What it does not have is a camera. My MacBook has one, but any site that wants to use it needs to ask permission first. When I say no, it does not see the camera. It’s not saying “I see camera, can I use it” it’s asking “can I use camera?” An answer of no returns the message “no camera.”

    I suspect it’s the same with all platforms. Meaning anyone who wants this can use it and the rest of us will just default to identifying sidewalks to train the cars.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.zip
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    Don’t have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.

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      Don’t worry, it will ask you to scan a QR code to complete the verification on your phone.

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        Jokes aside don’t give them ideas

        • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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          They already do this

      • OutsideBoxYouMustThink@lemmy.world
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        That made me chuckle

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    It can try, but I’m not doing that. I will stop using everything that requires it.

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      Yep. If the web requires ID to do anything I will only use it for banking and shit I already give my ID to. For everything else I’ll just pirate, or use tor/I2P until they lock me up.

      All these fascist criminal pedophiles that want to control us can suck a big fat bag of dicks.

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        Yep. We’ll make our own internet. And it won’t have recaptcha

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    So what’s stopping me from using OBS as a virtual camera and feeding it a stream of stock footage of someone waving their hand?

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      [relevant xkcd]

    • IDew@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      This…

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    Google can turn on my webcam all it wants. They can’t see through the sticky tape anyways.

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    Uh yeah, it most certainly will not.

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    Saying “WILL” is clickbait.

    As many have pointed out, they can’t force this.

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      Its Google, they will try. “This is the only way to accesss your emails.”

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      They can definetly use signals like VPN usage, not allowing third-party cookies and whatever else to force this verification mode if they want to. They may not be doing it right now but nothing prevents them.

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        Me not using their garbage internet does indeed stop them from doing it to me.

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          It’s reCAPTCHA. What “their garbage internet” are you referring to? The singular internet, the one you’re on right now? reCAPTCHA is used on tons of websites. It used to be useful until Google turned it into a machine learning training tool rather than a bot filtering tool.

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    For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.

    • 𝕽𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖈𝖆𝖑 𝕽𝖊𝖇𝖊𝖑@sh.itjust.works
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      Same!

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    I will return to monke

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