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Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones (www.androidauthority.com)
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  • Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.

  • Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification.

  • This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

There is a fucking huge market for non Google non iPhone come on somebody get the fuck on it

[–] SethDove@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Sailfish is awesome. It just doesn't work on any phones that work in north America anymore.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 42 minutes ago

Sailfish is closed-source, isn't it? I want to be excited about it, but I am hesitant about another closed-source OS.

[–] LuminousLuddite@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And de-enshittified analog cars. They need to hurry tf up.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

I really hate the idea that any car I buy in the future is going to come stuffed with fucky software that I don't want. Software defined car my fucking brown asshole.

I don't want some old jalopy with a carburetor and crank windows, but there's so little benefit to the individual for all the shit that I can't imagine wanting it.

I do my own repairs and I hate that half the time I need to get my laptop out to reset a thing, clear a code, re-initiate some shit. Pulling the battery cable off used to work for most things, but not anymore and for a long time.

I bought the car, but they own the software? So if I want do change or repair something, I have to pay them, but if the software shits the bed, I have to pay them? Everything ends with me paying them for something I already paid for.

Fuck that.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Big market, but also huge barrier to entry to get a phone ecosystem off the ground. MS, Amazon, Facebook, Mozilla and many others have tried and failed. Apple and Google have huge moats

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 13 minutes ago

they had the benefits of being first in the market.

[–] mynameisbob@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

monopoly capital tisk tisk tisk... we need to keep the children safe... don't you care about the children?