I’ve got one hand gesture for them!
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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These companies that feel entitled to our data have long ago lost the benefit of the doubt. You make money off of my personal information, you have also proved time and again you don't always obtain consent before collecting it, (not even buried in some EULA or disclosure) so no, I will not record myself and upload it to you...
I'll close that website page so fast they'll give me a speeding ticket. And then a permanent piece of tape goes over my webcam.
Please drink a verification can.
This would mean they can access your camera when ever they want. This is why I always put a piece of tape over mine.
No, just like for any other website, the browser would ask you for permission before enabling your camera.
(not an endorsement of the captcha)
The only gesture I'd ever give it:
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First time since I left Reddit that I just knew a comment would already exist, and here it is.
Turns out, I am no longer human
Meanwhile in india is spinning company of Indians of waving hands to cameras.
And you can be identived based on camera uniqueness, background image, hand shape.
Recent Advances in Deep Learning-Based Source Camera Identification and Device Linking
indians:
Future headline: Gemini sign language interpreter frequently flips the bird to absolutely everyone.
We're not sure how this got into the training data...
Fuck no.
"Chat, create a video of ". cat gestures.mp4 > /dev/camera
OK, so how does this work for things without cameras? They exist, I am using one right now. Does it just fail, does it default to another method?
You just lose access to the internet eventually.
Maybe google's internet. But not the whole thing.
Just guessing here but they'll have to fall back to other means, which defeats the purpose of screening for bots. But this being google and their main source of revenue being advertising, i'm guessing they're gonna use this technology to develop proof you're watching the ads you're shown
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Nope, just gonna browse away.
I guess I know which hand gesture I'll be making
Fun fact: Phone cameras now have enough resolution for AI to get your fingerprints off a photo
So, training AI to read hands more correctly, or trying to make an AI sign language interpreter.
= they are looking to improve AI hands
And there we go.
The tech giant says the system only analyzes hand-movement points from a short video, does not record audio, and deletes the footage after verification.
It's just a short video guys, there's even no audio! And they pinky promise to delete it.
What a fucking shitshow that is. Like, honestly, I'm fine with regular captchas, even if they are the shitty ones. The newer (?) captchas that force you to do solve 5 bullshit "place this there" captchas are already reason enough for me to just leave the site. But if you force me to record a video of me throwing gang signs at the camera, probably several times again, because the movement was not correctly identified, I'm sure as fuck to never visit anything related to you ever again.
I also love the irony that Google fights ~~people~~ bots, while they are scraping the whole internet and investing into AI automation massively.
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Please rub the verification can to continue.
ERROR unknown rubbing pattern detected
I'm only good at 1 method.
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... I have no camera.
This new CAPTCHA's prejudicial and exclusionary.
Not to mention grotesquely invasive.
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