Calling it: In the future we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data and have been using it to track their users in the real world by partnering with the likes of Flock.
we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data
They already have all that with the trillions and trillions of photos people willingly backed up with Google photos.
Google can verify I’m a human by not using Google.
I would love to not have YT in every corner of the internet though. I wonder how developers of Youtube forks will deal with this?
The only hand gesture I’m giving Google is:
🖕
The fuck it will
My desktop doesn’t have a webcam hum, oh wellz
It says in the docs:
"## Accessibility
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."
So it seems you can just do a different task if you don’t want to do the hand thing anyway.
Edit: obligatory F google still of course.
For now.
Also the last time I tried using the audio option on recaptcha it felt like a psychotic break.
Guess I’m not a human anymore
The Electric sheep dreams go hard though /s
Are webcams that ubiquitous nowadays? My monitors never had one, and I could never be arsed to buy an external one, but perhaps I’m the weird outlier here.
Further reason to avoid google’s shit like the fuckin plague.
The videos are never associated with a user’s identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.
My fat fucking ass do any of this. Google is just as data hungry as everyone else, they will absolutely save it, and feed it to their AI to enhance their ability to generate realistic people.
Exactly. In a few years, there will be some breach, and it will come out that Google “accidentally” saved everything, and they are shocked and appalled that the gosh darn AI that did it.
Exactly. Its what these companies do every time.
and there will be no punishment for it, because people are too lazy and stupid to stop using google, and government is to feckless and useless to properly hold megacorps accountable.
Bet they’ll be “punished” by a 5 million dollar fine (which is like, couch money to google, and would probably be 0.005% of the money they made from doing it)
Do Google employees actually do anything other than sit around thinking of ways to make things worse? In the last few years we’ve had web environment integrity (thankfully that one seems to have been dropped), gutting the AOSP to the point where it’s practically unusable on its own, Android developer verification, play integrity, QR code captchas and now this
Jokes on them. I run Linux on a 2017 MacBook Air and the camera doesn’t work
“Rest assured, the video is TOTALLY deleted, bro… but we will take about 120 still screenshots per second as a backup.”
“Oh weird, if you look at these screenshots real fast it’s almost like they move, haha, fun!!”
People without hands suddenly non human
Do you guys not have stumps?
yeah, so that’s absolutely not happening. if it requires me to turn my cam on, I will just close the tab.
