cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47972724

i encountered this for the first time today while attempting to read something on archive.today.

i confirmed that decoding the qrcode using a computer and following the URL it contains is insufficient; the error it gave directed me here which is what the linked screenshot is of.

the old type of captcha remains available too, for now:

screenshot of text: Important: Mobile verification for Google Cloud Fraud Defense is an experimental challenge type in Preview. Visual and audio challenges are available as alternatives for users who can't complete mobile verification. To use them, click the Visual or Audio buttons.

  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
    50·
    2 months ago

    Captcha has been one of the greatest google acquisitions ever.

    They acquired it under the guise of improving OCR and have since morphed it into an AI data farm (how else is google lens gonna know what objects are what?) and now total insight into a users every single action from desktop to mobile, tying it all together into a surveillance nightmare.

    I can guess the permissions that the recaptcha app needs now. Probably something akin to root access with all datapoints and considerations you could think of.

    • No1@aussie.zone
      20·
      2 months ago

      I used to always add one incorrect tile and skip one correct tile.(It would still pass)

      I thiught I was such a rebel lol

      Then I figured, they’d be stupid if they didn’t show the same image to multiple people…

      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I’ve had many, many not traffic light and motorcycle/bicycle recaptchas. They’re probably leaning a bit into self driving learning the past few years.

        Lens has a lot more data points nowadays after everyone’s google photos was used for training for what, 10+ years at this point?

        Google harvested all human typed words 15 years ago with the google library project. They’ve been hoarding and processing data for models forever.

        • Lumidaub@feddit.org
          1·
          2 months ago

          I was being at least partly facetious because I rarely get anything but motorcycles and traffic lights and even then it’ll most likely ask me about buses or bridges. Not disagreeing that they’re hoarding data :)