I don’t have a smartphone and I keep running into more and more of these QR codes. If I, as a citizen, am required to get a smartphone for these QR codes, to do citizen-like things, then it should be a utility and prices for hardware and services should come way down.
You get by without a smartphone? I was really late to get one but you just can’t function in today’s society without one where I’m at. In the Heart of Darkness here.
You can function in today’s society just fine, it’s just less convenient.
But the problem here is not only that you need a smartphone to begin with, but also one specifically from either Google or Apple. Having something else (like a phone with Sailfish or GrapheneOS or any other custom rom) also doesn’t work.
I am switching to graphene OS first chance I get, it should be this summer, damn the consequences.
I lived most of my life without any type of cell phone let alone a smart one. I’m going back to our roots, to reject this techno fascist bullshit it’s only downhill from here on their gear.
Same here. I’m waiting for Motorola to join in.
Yes, please. The more users we have on Graphene the harder we are to ignore as a user base.
The general crowd doesn’t seem to care about the trends that make graphene common sense and I suspect that Google would take measures if it ever did like they’re currently doing to fdroid.
In at least some sectors, even this enshitified EU should be forced to stop Google from being anti-competitive towards graphene to some extent.
The US is fucked but I don’t know about the rest of the world necessarily, kind of a free-for-all right now.
They are working on their “own” phone which should alleviate a fair number of concerns with what Google might be doing to sabotage them.
Yet, will they be able to develop their own OS when google stop sharing the code with them ? I do hope so…
i’m glad to know this!!! do you have any more info?
That’s actually a really good point! 🤔
These are so useless. A barrier that is likely already broken by bots.
I think I read on a lemmy post the other day that archive.is… kills babies? I don’t remember what it was, but that they’re bad and shouldn’t be used because of the badness.
Apparenly DDOSing a blog iirc. You’re not allowed to use it over at the Europe community because of it.
So it begins.
Isn’t scanning random QR codes super risky? This is just begging to be abused…
Absolutely
I never trusted it, I’ve never in my life scanned a QR code with my phone. But I never learned about it so whatever I just naturally do not trust anything computer.
Send an email to their webmaster if you haven’t already. The more of us, the better.
Really only way to fight back… There are alternatives to this shit
it feels like an updated version of “strongly worded letter”
If you click the eye icon at the bottom you can go back the original captcha. For now at least.
Also I have no idea why archive.is uses reCAPTCHA from google! You’ve set up monaro as your only donation system so clearly you care about privacy but you haven’t implemented an open source captcha?
Yeah, their privacy, not yours, evidently
Prove I’m human? Sure… [closes tab]
That’s what google’s been using to lockout non official Android forks like GrapheneOS. You can click on the eye icon at the bottom to get the regular captcha though… for now.
How does it stop those from scanning it?
Requires Google Play Services, from what I’ve heard, meaning it will only allow people who have phones pre approved by Google. I assume they also made some Apple service also acceptable. Can’t cut out their friends
Oh you can scan it, but as I recall they then force you to put your phone number in to finish the process.
Ffs
Ah yes, my very real human ability of scanning QR codes. Truly an inherent characteristic of humanity.
Þe stated reason is a lie. Þis isn’t about verifying anyone is human.
But you knew þat.
You know what else doesnt stop AI? Adding characters that even the most basic AI can easily filter out.
Just let people have their fun
Yeah honestly we should bring back more Old English characters.
Ash (æ) - between “a” and “e” like in cat Wynn (ƿ) - “w” sound, that will really throw them off Yogh (ȝ) - “y” or guttural “gh” sound
I would assume this was trying to deliver malware if I ever saw it
It arguably is malware.
It’ll certainly cause more people to get malware by normalizing people to scan QR codes on a whim without thinking
Probably still is. Scan it and let us know if you get malware.
It’s goes to recapt cha.net/qr/mMs9S9g8
(Space addes to break the link.)
reCAPTCHA protects. your privacy and does not share your details with this website or app.
We foxes promise not to let any predators into the henhouse.
They said it wasn’t shared with the website. They didn’t say it wasn’t shared with anyone at all.
Reminds me of those privacy policies. “We don’t sell your data!” in the big type. When you dig more into the fine print… they don’t! But they do “share it within their partner family of companies”. And then THOSE companies sell it. Or sometimes, sell inferences made from it, even if not sell the data.
Yeah, they’re just sharing your info with their 1000+ “legitimate interest” partners. Nothing sketchy about that, no sir.
A some recently website someone shared showed, there are some bits of data you automatically share with websites without them asking.
Did I just have a stroke, or is this comment incomprehensible to everyone else too?
Sorry, I was like half asleep. I can’t find it, there was a website I saw shared somewhere on Lemmy that showed you all the info you automatically shared when visiting a website and it pointed out stuff that they collected without even asking for it. The implication is that your device gives websites data involuntarily; the website wasn’t asking for it.
Funny that it just doesn’t work with JS disabled.
Disabling js disables breaks fingerprinting, but also breaks a lot of websites
So funny that a site about tracking needs more tracking to work.
https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken
Is the link that got posted recently, I’m unsure by who though, if someone finds the link please post it here!
Yes, this is the one!
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Any service implementing this shit will be on my list of never using it again. Even if my bank do such shit I’ll be moving to another one. Zero tolerancy. This is beyond the limits.
It’s easy to say this now. But what if, in a few years, 90% of websites and service providers use this?
I’ll be done using the internet!
I agree, and this is strictly because Google wants to kill forks like Graphene OS. Anybody who implements this is going to get their tab immediately closed on my browser and I’m never going back. I will have zero tolerance for this.
Btw I suggest URLCheck on F-Droid, it registers as a browser and allows you to check, clean, un-shorten links and so on before opening them
and what if i don’t have a mobile device?
Well, the bots do. Like 90% of viewbotting, click farming, follower buying etc is sold by people running phone farms.
Just scan the qr code on your screen with your mobile device, we can get it sorted out.
