Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human

gressen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Google. It’s their recaptcha service doing that. The QR code validation also gets rejected if you’re using a privacy oriented mobile OS like Graphene.

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At the cost of conditioning people into following orders from random qr codes

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  • dieTasse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you mean it was google.com? Or on which website was this recaptcha?

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    • lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Recaptcha is a service offered by Google. It doesn’t matter on which site the user encountered the QR code verification request - the problem is with Google (the company.)

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      • MartianSands@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It does matter, because that Google integration didn’t happen by magic. Whatever the site is, they chose to do things that way.

        The only way Google stops things like this is if they get actual pushback, and the only realistic way to achieve that is to make the people using their service reconsider.

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• sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  archive.is in this case

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  • 9bananas@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    are they fucking serious with this shit?

    what the hell…

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Archive.is is a Russian propaganda bot net. Don’t use it.

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      • 9bananas@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ah, that explains it…i half-remembered that something is off about that site, but couldn’t remember what it was…thanks for the heads up!

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      • SystemDisc@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What are good alternatives?

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• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It looks like a Cloudflare interstitial. I also don’t think sites get to choose which challenge types show up in reCAPTCHA, so this is on Google.

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  • fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t the site choosing to use recaptcha?

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    • wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The site is using Cloudflare for DDoS protection, and unfortunately Cloudflare is probably the most effective tool for this. It also looks like it might be archive.org in the screenshot, and they’ve been dealing with a lot of DDoS attacks lately.

      I don’t think Google advertises “we force you to scan a QR code” as a feature of reCAPTCHA either, so it feels a little weird to me to blame the site for using a DDoS protection tool that in turn uses reCAPTCHA for human verification when Google randomly decides to add a new stupid challenge type.

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      • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As far as I know, Cloudflare doesn’t use reCaptcha. I think they use a version of hCaptcha running on their own workers.

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