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Posted by unforgivenpasta 23 hours ago

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA(cloud.google.com)
371 points | 378 commentspage 7
kajman 20 hours ago|
This would not have ever been announced while Lina Khan was running the FCC.
otterley 20 hours ago||
What does the FCC have to do with this?
kajman 19 hours ago||
Anti-trust. They're selling part of the problem (inference via Gemini) and now they're selling a solution. They also dominate web standards by developing the dominant browser. And they control one of two dominant phone platforms that will collaborate to enable this solution.

If this were some smaller company that just did cloud then it'd never even make it to PoC. This can only happen because it's Google Cloud, and they can leverage everything they own all at once. Those not buying into their ecosystem can take a hike.

otterley 18 hours ago||
The FCC doesn't enforce antitrust law. That's the FTC. (The FTC is also the commission that Lina Khan chaired for a while.)
kajman 18 hours ago||
Oops, Yes. I got 2/3 of the letters correct, though. I think that might be a better rate of success than their court cases during those years.
jimz 18 hours ago||
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sylware 7 hours ago||
ofc, there is classic web support, aka noscript/basic (x)html?
nalekberov 18 hours ago||
I am almost certain that labs in India and China have already developed a solution to bypass the “Scan this QR” method.

What is easier than pointing a camera at a QR code and commanding and an AI bot to follow the next steps?

catlikesshrimp 19 hours ago||
How do I fit TOR in this? Do anonymous users get to use a more anonymous app?
doublerabbit 18 hours ago|
No. Just more rejection and labelled as a terrorist.
oybng 20 hours ago||
just how evil can google be?
ilia-a 16 hours ago||
Another nail in the web anonymity sounds like
LoganDark 21 hours ago||
Human verification via QR code does not mitigate labor farms.
kccqzy 20 hours ago||
Does reCAPTCHA ever claim to detect or block labor farms? From its old name it just seems to block bots only. (Bots are nowadays called agents.)
wslh 20 hours ago||
I imagine again a worldwide search for the cheapest labor. Mechanical Turk on steroids.
andrepd 18 hours ago||
We are much MUCH closer to "drink verification can" than to the time that greentext was written. Like many things in 2026, it's beyond fucking wild, it's a parody of itself.

And I don't see it getting better without government regulation. But states are now weaker than corporations. How can we expect them to take charge?

ptrl600 18 hours ago||
Maybe soon there will be a market for a phone specifically for use as a dummy, to get past all this nonsense.
ifh-hn 21 hours ago|
Can I confirm that this is more shit from Google trying to lock people into their ecosystem (or Apples) under the guise security?
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