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Google's reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.

Google’s reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
    107·
    3 months ago

    Time for the EU to step up and make it illegal for any European website to use these captchas.

    Regulate this shit, this is breaking any open web standard and also an accessibiliy nightmare. A lot of old people have a computer but a dumb phone, also how is a blind person that uses a screenreader supposed to navigate such a captcha?

    Ban this shit. NOW

      • activistPnk@slrpnk.net
        1·
        13 days ago

        Agreed. But I must say it’s surprising to see this insight come from a lemmy.world acct. Surely you must know that LW is in Cloudflare’s exclusive walled-garden, no?

        • pmtriste@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          Using it makes me more sick of it, not less sick of it. It feels like practically every site I visit uses it. But for whatever reason it doesn’t seem to bug me much on here, maybe because I’m always reading through Voyager rather than via website.

    • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      Unfortunately, I can’t give you more than 1 upvote. Want to give you tens of upvotes because I agree with you so bloody much!!

      EU have “banned” Google Analytics. It’s time for banning reCAPTCHA too, but hard banning - both of them!

    • Batmorous@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 months ago

      We should all suggest to EU what they should focus on:

      1. Make more phone OEM’s that work WITH JollaOS, PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, etc (With ability to fully switch OS’es)
      2. To make it where Android must stay open, and iOS needs to open up instead of clamping down (No more walled gardens)
      3. Another big thing: Having EU people own Android and iOS. With EU having them both fully open sourcing their OS’es with GPL-license for EU people to use and have. To know fully well that it is not being used for bad
      4. Same as #3 but for JavaScript

      Anyone want to add other stuff?

    • activistPnk@slrpnk.net
      1·
      13 days ago

      I would really prefer if users would just stop being pushovers. If people were wise enough to not solve CAPTCHAs, the problem would vanish. But ppl are too fucking lazy to use analog mechanisms.

      But ppl are pushovers.

      I tried to buy something online recently. The merchant’s website pushed a CAPTCHA as a precondition to submitting the order. WTF. People have become spineless pushovers to the point of doing work as customers, who never learned that it is the suppliers who must be subservient to the client. And because people have no discipline, the tyranny works. So the CAPTCHA-pushing merchant remains in business.