This is it, what they’ve been wanting all along. You will no longer be able to access vast swathes of the internet unless you have a Google approved device, that is a Google-certified Android device with Google Play Services (aka Google Play Spyware) or an app on iOS. Use GrapheneOS or a Linux phone? No internet for you.
What I’d like to know is, what if you’re already accessing a site from your phone? And what if you genuinely don’t have another device? I’m assuming the answer to the second is you’re SOL.
You’re also missing the point, that a real user with a real name will be tied to each web-request that is “approved”.
This is the beginning of the mandatory age enforcement/requirement.
Scan a Google tracking QR code, nope. Not to mnention how easy would it be to hide a malicious URL in a QR code. Nope, nope, nope.
This is a “trust me bro” vibe from Google. Guess sites will just have to deal with a drop in traffic. Cuz they’re not getting any more data from me if I can help it
First they filled the web full of ads, then they let loose an army of bots and now they have to come up with solutions to identify and track real humans, so as not to waste their precious advertising.
Google is the biggest creator of bot traffic on the internet with its crawlers, not to mention what they do to train their AI. I bet this won’t block Google’s own bots.
