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Google will make you wave at your computer to check you are real (www.the-independent.com)
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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 77 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What if you don’t have a webcam?

“For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives,”

Security is as good as the weakest link, either bots will exploit the accessibility feature making the webcam step for humans unnecessary.. or its just as secure… making the webcam step unnecessary.

Blatent attempt to extract data from you and nothing more if you ask me.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm not even doing captchas any more. eBay threw one at me last week so I bought the same item elsewhere.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

REcaptcha isn't a captcha. It's an audiovisual skills test that robots can pass & many humans can't.

[–] ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't it used to train AI or whatevs lol?

[–] ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

like captcha but it destroys itself

[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

good for it...

add more layers and I'll do the same, close the tab and just go elsewhere. it's not worth the hassle.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Curious to know where you went. I buy a lot of stuff on ebay

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Went to Walmart.com, which is not great either. I bought something on eBay yesterday and it was fine so they must just be testing or it was a glitch.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah nah, ebay > walmart. I'd rather not support a loud and proud trump supporting company

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They'll use your wifi signal strength to map out where the occupants of your home are and if the one sat at the computer is waving

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Quit giving them ideas!

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

It's already ongoing

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fine, i'll go somewhere else.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

wave goodbye.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I will not bend here. Either Google stops that, or I will not be using websites that use ReCAPTCHA as their service.

I will not scan a QR code with my phone, and I will not wave at the camera. I will not allow it to access my camera.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

It would be nice if there was alert if we side uses this dystopian Recaptcha

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Kinda irrelevant how much they want it or even how much i do it. My PC doesn't have a camera to begin with.

No, i will not do it in front of my phone either, they don't need any more data points or facial recognition database either. I'm completely fine not using any service that implements it as well.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Honestly, fingers and movement have been two of the telling signs of AI photos and video for a long time. Just like they've used captchas to crowd-source house numbers for their maps, and vehicle information and street infrastructure for their attempts at self-driving vehicles, they're now crowd-sourcing data for AI images and video.

Plus they'll get geo-information on your location, and video of your immediate area - like the inside of your house. They've had code that processes images and gives feedback on the people in the photo, their likely income and interests, and suggests ads targeted to those people. With geo-location, fingerprinting your phone, and now pictures of the inside of your house, they're really dialing in on their surveillance and ad databases.

Not saying that the opportunity to build facial ID banks isn't a bonus. But don't discount the opportunity to spy inside everyone's homes, and to improve their ability to literally generate their own version of reality - or to produce "evidence" disproving your reality to everyone else.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, though you're right. I completely forgot how much data hoarding they actually can and will do.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

cant let MS upstage them

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

They had a whole presentation on this, and over half was got this ties into Google analytics and advertising.

It’s specifically to sell your demographic info and not about bots or training.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

The phone is where all the datamaning is happening, since its more integrated with your personal data than a computer.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 26 points 2 weeks ago

Yep. Not happening. No site is worth that level of fuckery

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

Remember when the internet didn’t suck? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I simply, will fucking not.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Google cannot conceive of a computer that doesn't have an attached camera, can they?

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, it's pretty rare. Even a lot of desktops have it.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have a little bit of tape over my webcam in my laptop, so I guess I don't have a webcam.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 14 points 2 weeks ago

Does waving with my rear end count?

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 13 points 2 weeks ago

No, I don't think they will.

[–] Yama_Pattern_01@piefed.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

They can just fuck off . I will be pretty happy to just close the site . Anyways there is almost zero valuable information there

[–] RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not my computer they won't.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Not very accessible.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago

I often just alt-w those fucking annoying captchas. Then I will alt-w even faster because I have no can and also have google blocked.

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, no

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

I’ll pass on that thanks.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm wondering if Anubis can't have a paid corporate tier structure?

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Reverse Turing test for the reverse centaur.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

just like FB require an actual ID, and face scan.