Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand
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16 hours ago
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Cider9986
14 hours ago
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I saw a post on the GrapheneOS forum of someone who was accosted by Google with this requirement, so they are certainly using it.

It's interesting the parallels of Google's recaptcha and Cloudflare turnstile.

Cloudflare is free, no image selector, allows VPNs and Tor for the most part, just 0 click with a good ip reputation and 1 click with a bad one.

Recaptcha is paid, trains waymos, sucks millions of hours of human time, asks for camera access, asks for a phone attestation, blocks VPNs/Tor.

Thank god less sites are using ReCAPTCHA.

Looking forward to some other solutions gaining prominence eventually as well.

Like that Anime girl one.

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ButlerianJihad
10 hours ago
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ragnar76
15 hours ago
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What if you don't have a cam or a hand?
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ta93754829
9 hours ago
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can't even do onlyfans
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outside1234
11 hours ago
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SYNTAX ERROR
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jimmy76615
13 hours ago
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Doesn't surprise me at all and seems like a good solution to the problem of human verification. It won't take long for AI to catch up to that, but this captcha method might hold for a couple of months.

Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this. The alternative would be device certificate stuff (ala did Apple sign for this being a proper Apple device?). Having to shake your hand sounds a lot more privacy friendly. Are you guys seriously worried that Google is gonna steal your secret handshakes?

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aix1
8 hours ago
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> Not sure what problem everybody here is having with this.

For starters, it's extremely invasive (camera on to pay a bill - wtf?), has unclear privacy implications and questionable accessibility (to put it mildly).

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Terr_
16 hours ago
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Imagine getting your hand wrongly blacklisted as a fake, and then someday down the road you make a wrong gesture during an online interview and now your real-name is also on the suspicion list.
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nerdsniper
15 hours ago
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Imagine you don’t have a hand.
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ButlerianJihad
10 hours ago
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As a Man of Culture, my hand ranks highly among my most valuable appendages!
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smalltorch
15 hours ago
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I could see this being privacy friendly if the user could see exactly what Google was using.

For instance, terminalcam, gives just enough data to reveal liveness without necessarily giving enough information about identity.

https://gitlab.com/here_forawhile/terminalcam

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add-sub-mul-div
14 hours ago
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The non-mandatory internet that requires any captcha at all is becoming non-existent to me.
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tensegrist
13 hours ago
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can a unique fingerprint (no pun intended) be extracted from hand geometry
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outside1234
11 hours ago
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Is it weird that my reaction to all of this is that I am just going to drop these websites when they ask me for this?
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Cider9986
11 hours ago
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No, but what would you do if it's a government required service?
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toxic72
1 hour ago
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The IRS wanted a full 3d scan of my face to prove identity AFTER I already had a working account used every year for the past 3+ years.

They asked for feedback after I canceled the login, I gave very candid feedback in a form.

Then they asked if I would give an interview.

You know why I wanted to log in? To claim a $7 refund.

They ended up mailing it.

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expedition32
9 hours ago
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Oh I wish! Had to solve one in order to pay a bill.

The internet is dead.

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catfish-1234
16 hours ago
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My openclaw agent gonna find some way around it.
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pinnapi
16 hours ago
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things are getting out of hand :D
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