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Any website that chooses to use this service will simply not get my traffic. If enough people feel the same, those websites will lose clicks and eventually tell Google to pound sand.
Imagine the utter hubris on these fuckers to think that people will get a google device just to access a website.
Or to think that an average user sitting at home would run to another room to grab their phone so they can verify themselves on the desktop just to visit blackcougar.com
1 year later
Government website you have to use to pay your water bill: “Confirm you are a human…”
I either use my banking website or go into city hall clerks office to pay it in person. I've never once had to go to the actual government website. It's an option, but not mandatory.
They're using the fact that everyone else both already owns a Google or iOS device, and does everything on those devices, to punish desktop and alt mobile OS users.
The fact that this is going on right as AluminumOS is down the pipes, and right as rigged parts prices threaten to kill desktops as an option to begin with makes this especially sus.
The way things are going right now, I won't be surprised if we see a computing future where you're either on a Google or Apple-controlled device, or you're on a thin client tied to a cloud subscription, and you won't own your tech anymore.
Bezos' 'Give up your PC and rent from our cloud' threat is sounding less and less like a threat and more and more likely to become reality.
Have you been paying attention to the open source community at all? We have made this future impossible.
Right now we can share a lot of infrastructure.
You want me to scan a QR code to log onto your fuckin' website?!
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to get the reference. Its a pretty old episode.