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Google will now verify if you're a human by turning on your webcam and asking you to wave your hand
(docs.cloud.google.com)
Well, not me.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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Jokes on them, I have no webcam.
If I have to do face verification at some point I am using a pic of Harold. I am almost 70.
Web cam? I don't have one on my computer, what now?
Can the AI identify which finger I'm waving too?
Doesn't AI work great for this, what with those AIs that turn Reddit mods into anime cosplayer girls?
Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers
- https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
- https://grapheneos.org/ * https://postmarketos.org/
- https://www.fairphone.com/ * https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
- https://librewolf.net/ * https://www.waterfox.com/
- https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox * https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
- https://www.ecosia.org/ * https://qwant.com/ * https://searxng.org/
- https://immich.app/ * https://nextcloud.com/
- https://www.comaps.app/ + https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
- https://signal.org/ * https://element.io/en
- https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
- https://bitwarden.com/ * https://joplinapp.org/
- https://www.qobuz.com/
- https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ * https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
- https://tuta.com/secure-email
degoogle for privacy
still use AI chatbot
Bruh
I think such an all-or-nothing mindset is exactly why people are staying on megacorp services. Besides, Mistral is much more transparent about its data collection, unlike Google, which makes you disable all chat history if you want to prevent training on your inputs.
All-or-nothing mindset people usually do not comment because they want to be helpful. They are a nuisance.
Waving is something robots already could in the 80s.
That’s it, I’m rewatching Short Circuit now
Absolutely not. Go fuck yourselves. There's not a person in the world who I would do this for.
Came to say this. I'm not uploading my ID so I can check my emails. I'm not turning on a camera so I can log into a website.
And it says "When the hand gesture feature is enabled, reCAPTCHA collects the following data:".
When it gets forced, we talk again.
You right now: 
This sort of condescending tone is so insufferable.
This is the narrow end of the wedge. Once it's forced it will already be too late.
Fuck you, Google.
Don't have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.
Don't worry, it will ask you to scan a QR code to complete the verification on your phone.
No phone. Now what?
I always buy the cheapest phone and usually they dont have built in qr code scanner. My current phone doesnt. And no, im not downloading some shitty feature-stuffed adware app just to scan qr codes
Slightly off topic, but if you need a QR code scanner there are really good open source ones available on F-Droid. Such is SecScanQR which I have been using for quite a while.
If you need a utility app chances are an open source one already exists. Avoid crapware from the Play Store.
Jokes aside don't give them ideas
They already do this
Yeah and they enroll any phone against your will too. Last month google randomly decided an android VM I spun up for like ten minutes then deleted was my primary device and wanted me to use it to log in.
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Privacy nightmare aside, is it just me or does this sound a lot less secure than the find the bus bullshit they do now? Seems like it would be much easier for a bot to generate a realistic looking hand wave than interpret increasingly obscure photo puzzles.
Well right. But they can't collect your photo and other data that way.
It can try, but I'm not doing that. I will stop using everything that requires it.
Me neither... So are people like us just going to make our own internet or what? Because it's getting kind of hard not having access to 90% of things without logging in anymore.
Yep. If the web requires ID to do anything I will only use it for banking and shit I already give my ID to. For everything else I'll just pirate, or use tor/I2P until they lock me up.
All these fascist criminal pedophiles that want to control us can suck a big fat bag of dicks.
Yep. We'll make our own internet. And it won't have recaptcha
So what's stopping me from using OBS as a virtual camera and feeding it a stream of stock footage of someone waving their hand?
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What will happen if I wave my dick and masturbate instead?
For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.
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Saying “WILL” is clickbait.
As many have pointed out, they can’t force this.
Its Google, they will try. "This is the only way to accesss your emails."
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Google can turn on my webcam all it wants. They can't see through the sticky tape anyways.
They can't turn on a webcam that doesn't exist. I have no intention of connecting one to my desktops.
I still wouldn't want google capturing my body and my home even through the filter of sticky tape. even if it's pitch black, I can't rule out that they're not fingerprinting whatever they can find that's unique about my camera's sensor.
Uh yeah, it most certainly will not.
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