Google has a lot of fraud because they have absolutely no standards when it comes to advertising scams and frauds as the first result. Google is a services company for the global crime industry.

I suppose it's now become a default assumption every customer is going to own a smart phone that complies with this requirement?

It seems on iOS you'll even need to download an application, which is quite a bit of friction.

In the current economic times, adding minutes onto the user journey is not going to result in increased sales, I suspect the data will prove the opposite.

Using a mobile device is bad enough as it is: TOTP, email, SMS codes, 3DS etc, while you can say this is part of the "flow", it's too much. I can see many abandoned journeys from this.

Those who don't read articles: Google is pushing QR codes as captcha.

My personal thoughts is that this is fucked. I'm not whipping out my phone to read some blog or comment on youtube.

Does not seem to anyone that Google is wielding too much power over our digital lives and the Internet?

Apart from the horrifying privacy implications, this also means all a bot needs to do to access a website is send a screenshot to an Android device. They made the CAPTCHA machine-readable. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.

The efforts by Googles, Meta, TikTok, X and AWS etc. to fight fraud and other financial crimes are probably largely deficient. They earn significant revenue from crime and criminal activity. Compared to banks which are required to prevent financial crimes up to personal criminal liability of employees there are no comparable rules for social media platforms.

How do two service businesses get treated so differently by law?

How are people stopping bots reliably?

Google building harder walls against bots while simultaneously building AI agents that need to get through them is peak 2026.

  Resolving Final Compilation Conflict: I will remove the redundant `Entry` type declaration to resolve the compilation conflict and finalize the in-memory `StdNetDB` refactor.

    Edit  std.go → Accepted (+0, -1)

      31   type Entry struct {
      32       RouterInfo *router_info.RouterInfo
      33   }
      34 -
      34   func NewStdNetDB(db string) *StdNetDB {
      35       ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
      36       return &StdNetDB{

> we enable application providers to deter and mitigate malicious requests by requesting humans to be in the loop using the new QR code-based challenge.

I'm so pissed off in advance. I hope that Google die and collapse in sudden bankruptcy before we have to support this crappy challenges that are totally user hostile!

Will it be GDPR-compliant -- contrary to reCAPTCHA ?