• Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.

  • Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification.

  • This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

  • zerofk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    50·
    2 days ago

    Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?

    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      To be honest, most of what they use now is pretty easy for machines to do. Mostly because they’ve been using the captcha to train ocr and self driving.

        • YeahToast@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          And started off with letter identification to help with reading scanned books. For example, place 3 known 'R’s tell users to select all R’s. If majority of people select 4 R’s then that unknown 4th R becomes a known letter