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Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

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  • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

    Now this is some bullshit.

    Today: Don't have an "approved" phone? Too bad for you.
    Tomorrow: Don't have a Google account? Good bye.

    Another nail in the coffin of the Open Web. Those fuckers.

    Just a moment...

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    https://cybernews.com/privacy/google-qr-code-recaptcha-requires-approved-phone/

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    @jschauma Revelation 13:16-17: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
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    • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

      Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

      Not today, Satan.

      dreiwert@chaos.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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      #21

      @jschauma The caption is inaccurate. It should say "Scan this to verify that you are a US #bigtech customer". Isn't there some regulation that should prevent this kind of misleading advertisement?

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      • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

        Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

        Not today, Satan.

        brennan@social.lolB This user is from outside of this forum
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        #22

        @jschauma reCAPTCHA has always been an insidious service. It used to be exploitative labour (https://boingboing.net/2025/02/07/recaptcha-819-million-hours-of-wasted-human-time-and-billions-of-dollars-google-profit.html)

        The truth is though we have no idea what's going on with its scripting. Any site that uses reCAPTCHA could be logging far more data points about users than is being disclosed. It is a black box that could be keylogging. Literally any alternative is better.

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        • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

          Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

          Not today, Satan.

          paul@notnull.spaceP This user is from outside of this forum
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          #23

          @jschauma it's almost as if we haven't included #Quishing attack information in cyber awareness training for the last few years or something.

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          • paul@notnull.spaceP paul@notnull.space

            @jschauma it's almost as if we haven't included #Quishing attack information in cyber awareness training for the last few years or something.

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            #24

            @jschauma ah, wait... Maybe the "proof" that you're human is that you can fall for such an scam

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            • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

              Now this is some bullshit.

              Today: Don't have an "approved" phone? Too bad for you.
              Tomorrow: Don't have a Google account? Good bye.

              Another nail in the coffin of the Open Web. Those fuckers.

              Just a moment...

              favicon

              (thecodersblog.com)

              https://cybernews.com/privacy/google-qr-code-recaptcha-requires-approved-phone/

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              #25

              @jschauma

              The open web is fine. None of our sites have this shit on them. If they want to split the web into hell/pleasant, we know who where Pleasantville is.

              _stretches out_

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              • itgrrl@infosec.exchangeI itgrrl@infosec.exchange

                @bryan @jschauma this one links to a URL in the form of https[://]recaptcha[.]net/qr/xxxxxxxx where xxxxxxxx is an 8-character string of letters & numbers

                if you hit the root of the FQDN you get a 404 but if you hit https[://]recaptcha[.]net/qr/ you get redirected to https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652 which says that it’s part of “Mobile verification for Google Cloud Fraud Defense” and is “an experimental challenge type in Preview” (screenshot attached)

                it then goes on to suggest that you should download the Google reCAPTCHA
                app to be able to complete the CAPTCHA (lol nope 🙅‍♀️ 🤪) and undoubtedly send Google a crap-tonne more info about you & your device

                presumably this is because most people are accessing the challenge page on the mobile device that would be required to point its camera at its own screen – as (quite rightly) mobile browsers haven’t (yet) enabled the ability to blithely scan any old QR code displayed on a web page (but I expect this “feature” will be added soon enough to at least some mobile browsers 😩)

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                #26

                @itgrrl @bryan @jschauma how did they manage to lose the lowercase c letter lol

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                • zverik@en.osm.townZ zverik@en.osm.town

                  @itgrrl @bryan @jschauma how did they manage to lose the lowercase c letter lol

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                  @zverik @bryan @jschauma yeah I’ve seen that before – it displays correctly in the web page but when a full page screenshot is taken it gets munged

                  my assumption is that it’s a unicode char that isn’t supported by whatever tool does the rendering of the full page for the full page screenshot pipeline on iOS ¯_(ツ)_/¯

                  you can see that a regular screenshot that only takes the visible screen doesn’t have the same problem 👇

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                  • f4grx@chaos.socialF f4grx@chaos.social

                    @jschauma you have to hit a url to unlock access? Wtf? They want to link phones, right? Also thats the most automatable captcha I have ever seen lol

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                    @f4grx @jschauma You have to use an approved iOS or Android device – it won't even work on anything running AOSP.

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                    • jernej__s@infosec.exchangeJ jernej__s@infosec.exchange

                      @f4grx @jschauma You have to use an approved iOS or Android device – it won't even work on anything running AOSP.

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                      #29

                      @jernej__s @jschauma As a lineage user, I will just say no, nope. never.

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                      • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                        Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                        Not today, Satan.

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                        #30

                        @jschauma That's not a phishing operation I've seen before...

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                        • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                          Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                          Not today, Satan.

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                          @jschauma well this can fuck aaaall the way off on the rocket with eric schmidt

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                          • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                            Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                            Not today, Satan.

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                            #32

                            @jschauma I think the reason was that AI crawlers and bots currently have trouble reading QR codes. Which is weird because the whole point of QR codes is that they are machine readable 🤷‍♂️

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                            • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                              Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                              Not today, Satan.

                              tschach@mastodon.socialT This user is from outside of this forum
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                              #33

                              @jschauma Next: Please provide a blood sample to verify you're human!

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                              • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                                Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                                Not today, Satan.

                                stoori@polyglot.cityS This user is from outside of this forum
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                                #34

                                @jschauma in addition to all the other obvious problems with this, have they even considered accessibility at all?

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                                • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                                  Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                                  Not today, Satan.

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                                  #35

                                  @jschauma
                                  The simple solution?

                                  Bye, no interest on any web content which require this.
                                  No need to agree at all.

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                                  • drahardja@sfba.socialD drahardja@sfba.social

                                    @jschauma We all know that training people to scan random QR codes will not lead to anything bad ever happening!

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                                    #36

                                    @drahardja @jschauma oh don't worry you just need to use Chrome which now has the 4GB AI model that will maybe block a page if it thinks it's phishing and not a real Google ReCaptcha ​​

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                                    • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                                      Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                                      Not today, Satan.

                                      mendie_taoma@tech.lgbtM This user is from outside of this forum
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                                      #37

                                      @jschauma

                                      First, do some evil.

                                      No, wait, I'm not sure that's how it went.

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                                      • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                                        Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                                        Not today, Satan.

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                                        #38

                                        @jschauma Google declaring war on the Open Web. Feed Gemini, or die.

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                                        • jschauma@mstdn.socialJ jschauma@mstdn.social

                                          Now what the fresh fuck is this, then?

                                          Not today, Satan.

                                          cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizzaC This user is from outside of this forum
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                                          #39

                                          @jschauma what the shit is this nonsense? What website did this so I can never, ever go there?

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