cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49133953
the article neglected to link to google's page about this:
https://docs.cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/hand-gesture-verification
Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/google-captcha-bot-real-check-hand-wave-b3000419.html
12 Comments
LordMayor@piefed.social · 17 pts · 66d
Yeah, there’s no way I’m giving Google access to my camera.
Codpiece@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 66d
Do rude gestures count? There’s no way I’m giving anything google-related access to my camera.
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 66d
It'd detect profanity and reject scanning it further, because there could be children watching your verification clip. Then the whole thing would be given to an Indonesian bloke to review instead
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 66d
Google can go fuck itself with a rusty rake, I'm not doing that.
UpperBroccoli@feddit.org · 9 pts · 66d
Nuh-uh, not happening.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 66d
PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com · 7 pts · 66d
You might. I sure as shit won't be. I am finally free of everything google (except it somewhere in my backend via searxng). I have liberated my phone, my files, my email, everything. I am google free and fuck it feels good.
DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 66d
Good luck getting away from reCAPTCHA.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com · -1 pts · 66d
I hardly ever read websites anymore. My AI agent does that for me. Running an openweight model with a custom lora finetune on my own hardware. But yeah I would encounter recaptch on various sites I need to navigate myself like portals and such.
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 66d
I need to de-google but it seems exhausting. I've had Gmail since like 2006 and everything in Drive and Photos.
muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com · 1 pts · 66d
Yeah I did it slowly over a period of time. I started with learning self hosting and moving over files with next cloud. Then got Immich for my photos. Changing over email was a huge pain in the ass tho even tho their wasn't much I actually used so killed hundreds of linked accounts and set up forwarding rules for anyone in my contacts. As been running GrapheneOS for a while so had already killed most apps that needed play services and sandboxed the rest. Would recommend comaps for navigation its good but lacks address numbers and a lot of places (at least here in Australia).
It's a pain but the feeling of true digital sovereignty is amazing.
LogicOverFeelings@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 66d
Look, I'm waving: 🖕