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Google's reCAPTCHA Fails De-Googled Android Users, Impacting Privacy (thecodersblog.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 98 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] Batmorous@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

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

Make more phone OEM's that work WITH JollaOS, PostmarketOS, GrapheneOS, etc (With ability to fully switch OS'es)
To make it where Android must stay open, and iOS needs to open up instead of clamping down (No more walled gardens)
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
Same as #3 but for JavaScript

Anyone want to add other stuff?

[–] pmtriste@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For God's sake yes, and cloudflare too while we're at it. I'm so sick of their crap.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 days ago

Everything except their DNS resolution and proxies, right?

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

EU have "banned" Google Analytics

that seemed worthless though, I still see it at lots of places.

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Yepp. It's like EU have only soft-banned that shit.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

But, but, but orange man is going to tariff! Economy go "boo"!