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The videos are never associated with a user's identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

I actually believe them. It's gonna start out this way. But in a year or two, they'll quietly slip in a provision stating they will hold on to the images for a short time for security purposes, then they will say that they will associate your image with your identity to make it more secure, then Google's AI will know everything about everyone (and sell the info to the highest bidder)

The fuck it will.

I will not do this. Whatever services require this i will not use.

Calling it: In the future we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data and have been using it to track their users in the real world by partnering with the likes of Flock.

What Webcam?

Google can verify I'm a human by not using Google.

The fuck it will

Further reason to avoid google's shit like the fuckin plague.

The videos are never associated with a user’s identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

My fat fucking ass do any of this. Google is just as data hungry as everyone else, they will absolutely save it, and feed it to their AI to enhance their ability to generate realistic people.

Guess I'm not a human anymore

A bit hard given the lack of webcam.

yeah, so that's absolutely not happening. if it requires me to turn my cam on, I will just close the tab.

Do Google employees actually do anything other than sit around thinking of ways to make things worse? In the last few years we've had web environment integrity (thankfully that one seems to have been dropped), gutting the AOSP to the point where it's practically unusable on its own, Android developer verification, play integrity, QR code captchas and now this

The fuck it will

Are webcams that ubiquitous nowadays? My monitors never had one, and I could never be arsed to buy an external one, but perhaps I'm the weird outlier here.

The only hand gesture I'm giving Google is:

🖕

I don't have a child, but if I a did have one, and they walked naked in front of the webcam, could I go after Google for CP?

So we click the things that say can not do challenge and we’ll pick the alternatives, no?

"Accessibility

For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives."

Jokes on them. I run Linux on a 2017 MacBook Air and the camera doesn't work

No, they won't. They might try, mind you, but that's not happening. I'll sooner adapt to a piece of tape at the top of my screen than to this.

My desktop doesn't have a webcam hum, oh wellz

Think I'll finish migrating away from google this weekend.

It says in the docs:

"## Accessibility

For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives."

So it seems you can just do a different task if you don't want to do the hand thing anyway.

Edit: obligatory F google still of course.

I'll wave my ding dong

"Rest assured, the video is TOTALLY deleted, bro... but we will take about 120 still screenshots per second as a backup."

"Oh weird, if you look at these screenshots real fast it's almost like they move, haha, fun!!"

People without hands suddenly non human

The fuck they will