Surveillance is not security.
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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"Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither and will lose both" - KMFDM, Shake the Cage, by way of Ben Franklin.
More and more people are taking back their privacy. Sites using the new system will have less traffic.
I expect it's still such a tiny proportion compared to those using stock Android and iPhone that the dip in traffic won't even register for most sites. It's just an inconvenience for those of us who use privacy-focused phones for now, but it's also one more brick in the wall being built globally to lock us out of online life.
One issue is that government services are increasingly online, accessible through forms that are "safeguarded" by google recaptcha.
I really hate how much of the government has been handed to corporations to run for us. From court being on zoom, to needing a Google account or Google phone just to access forms.
I had to have a medical appointment via Zoom. If I wanted help it was that or get bumped out of the system and be on my own (not an option). I didn't even need the damn appointment but it was the gateway to seeing a specialist. So yeah, medical help gated by Zoom. And worse is that when I logged in, they didn't even have the session encrypted 🤦🏻♀️
I'm still not on graphene, but even on android I'm not gonna read a QR code to pass a captcha test
So, sites are now self-selecting to not be used.
Gorram Google making the 'verse worse everyday.
Is there a way I can tell if a site does that new captcha bullshit if I use a stock android? I could access them, but I don't want to.
They ask you to scan a QR code.
Thanks
Don't care. Love my /e/OS Fairphone 6. Any site that relies on Google shit don't deserve my view.
Same here ,on graphene
As if current version of recaptcha isn't inconvenient enough...clicking all the proper boxes yet it shows up as failed😑
So here's what you do. You can make a screenshot reader app where it scans the qr code and reads it using a live side loaded cloud version of Google to verify it and then automatically switched back to graphene. Like your graphene security won't break but the Google system will detect your device as being under the generalized Google services and then once the scan is done the graphene system kicks back in.
Sorta like a vpn/spoofing system that relies on jailbreaking the Google api?