Google's reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.
Google's reCAPTCHA Fails De-Googled Android Users, Impacting Privacy
https://thecodersblog.com/google-breaks-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users-2026/
21 Comments
comrade_twisty@feddit.org · 107 pts · 115d
Time for the EU to step up and make it illegal for any European website to use these captchas.
Regulate this shit, this is breaking any open web standard and also an accessibiliy nightmare. A lot of old people have a computer but a dumb phone, also how is a blind person that uses a screenreader supposed to navigate such a captcha?
Ban this shit. NOW
pmtriste@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 115d
For God's sake yes, and cloudflare too while we're at it. I'm so sick of their crap.
activistPnk@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 23d
Agreed. But I must say it’s surprising to see this insight come from a lemmy.world acct. Surely you must know that LW is in Cloudflare’s exclusive walled-garden, no?
pmtriste@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 16d
Using it makes me more sick of it, not less sick of it. It feels like practically every site I visit uses it. But for whatever reason it doesn't seem to bug me much on here, maybe because I'm always reading through Voyager rather than via website.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · -5 pts · 115d
Everything except their DNS resolution and proxies, right?
airikr@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 115d
Unfortunately, I can't give you more than 1 upvote. Want to give you tens of upvotes because I agree with you so bloody much!!
EU have "banned" Google Analytics. It's time for banning reCAPTCHA too, but hard banning - both of them!
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 114d
that seemed worthless though, I still see it at lots of places.
airikr@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 114d
Yepp. It's like EU have only soft-banned that shit.
Batmorous@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 114d
We should all suggest to EU what they should focus on:
Anyone want to add other stuff?
IratePirate@feddit.org · 4 pts · 115d
But, but, but orange man is going to tariff! Economy go "boo"!
activistPnk@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 23d
I would really prefer if users would just stop being pushovers. If people were wise enough to not solve CAPTCHAs, the problem would vanish. But ppl are too fucking lazy to use analog mechanisms.
But ppl are pushovers.
I tried to buy something online recently. The merchant’s website pushed a CAPTCHA as a precondition to submitting the order. WTF. People have become spineless pushovers to the point of doing work as customers, who never learned that it is the suppliers who must be subservient to the client. And because people have no discipline, the tyranny works. So the CAPTCHA-pushing merchant remains in business.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 115d
That's what happens when you let one company manage everything.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 68 pts · 115d
No. That's what happens when the United States deliberately chooses to let its monopolies capture markets unchecked.
Google, like Microsoft, Amazon and a slew of egregious, predatory Big Tech monopolies, would have been broken up into harmless pieces years ago - if not decades - in any other country.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 115d
Those two things are not unrelated.
IratePirate@feddit.org · 6 pts · 115d
This right here, but without the "deliberate", which hides the egregious levels of corruption that allowed for this to happen.
FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 115d
I have plan to dig up and somehow reanimate Teddy.
I figure we get some cool new nat parks out of it too. If I can pull this off.
I'm still working out the details.
tirateimas@lemmy.pt · 48 pts · 115d
Getting rid of Google (and the reliance on US big tech) is more important than ever.
postcapitalism@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 115d
Cloudfare is doing this to Apple browsers with do not fingerprint features enabled
Krudler@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 115d
I appreciate this informative title, much more than the hysterical trash-titles that were posted elsewhere.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 114d
It_is_gaslighting@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 115d
Easy to sue them then.