Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human

• lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      and the only realistic way to achieve that is to make the people using their service reconsider.

      So what exactly will naming the site achieve? If someone wants to boycott recaptcha (which I’m 100% onboard with, btw) they’ll just not comply with the captcha and leave the site when they encounter it. On the other hand, someone who would not otherwise visit the site cannot reduce traffic to the site by direct action. Telling their friends “don’t use that site, it uses recaptcha” is no more effective than telling them “don’t use any site that requires you to do QR recaptchas.”

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    • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The screenshot looks like it might be a cloudflare verification page, which would put another layer of separation between the site owner and the QR system.

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      • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Cloudflare has their own captcha since a while

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    • dieTasse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Exactly this!

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