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Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.

Google is cutting the storage of new accounts from 15GB to 5GB UNLESS you give them your phone number. This basically means that you're paying with your identity. Don't do that.

DeGoogled Android user? Google's next-generation reCAPTCHA, presented to desktop users, prompts you to scan a QR code. The catch? Google Play Services have to be enabled in order for it to work on these devices. Let's dig in to what has changed, and possible solutions... 1/7

@secretsofprivac @ProtonPrivacy Resist the culling of humanity and our technological achievements from being abused and used to enslave of instead of bring abundance and the liberty and justice we were promised. It's not even a choice, as Patrick Henry once pointed out, "liberty or death"

@ProtonPrivacy Tough choices ahead

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Google's reCAPTCHA now requires a QR code scan that only works with Google Play Services or a modern iPhone, meaning anyone without a certified device can't verify. They tried this in 2023 (Web Environment Integrity) and pulled it after public outcry, so this time they launched it as a commercial product instead of a public proposal. The old CAPTCHA methods are still accessible as a fallback for now, but how long Google keeps that option around is anyone's guess. 🤷‍♂️

‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed. GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision. What happened?: ▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated. ▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead. ▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed. ▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out. The bigger picture: ▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature. ▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too. Google's Play Integrity API requires hardware attestation for the strong integrity level and is gradually phasing in requiring it for the more commonly used device integrity level. Apple already has it as a requirement. Over the long term, this will increasingly lock out hardware and OS competition. The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is wrongly presented as being a security feature. Banks and government services are the main ones adopting it but Apple and Google are encouraging every service to use it. Apple's Privacy Pass brought hardware attestation to the web to help with passing captchas on their own hardware. Many people saw that as harmless since few sites would be willing to lock out non-Apple-hardware users. Apple and Google are both likely to bring broader hardware attestation to the web. Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems: support.google.com/recaptcha/answ… Banking and government services increasingly require using a mobile app where they can use attestation to force using an Apple or Google approved device and OS. Apple's privacy pass, Google's 'cancelled' Web Environment Integrity and now reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification are bringing this to the web. Current media coverage for reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification misunderstands it and the impact of it. They're bringing a hardware attestation requirement to Windows, desktop Linux, OpenBSD, etc. by requiring a QR scan from a certified smartphone to pass reCAPTCHA in some cases. They could expand it more. Control over reCAPTCHA puts Google in a position where they can require having either iOS or a certified Android device to use an enormous amount of the web. Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc. It's enormously anti-competitive. Google's Play Integrity API bans using GrapheneOS despite it being far more secure than anything they permit. It also bans using any other alternative. This isn't somehow specific to an AOSP-based OS. You can't avoid this by using a mobile OS based on FreeBSD instead. You'll just be more locked out. Google's Play Integrity API permits devices with no security patches for 10 years. The device integrity level can be bypassed via spoofing but they can detect it quite well and block it once it starts being done at scale. The strong integrity level requires leaked keys from TEEs/SEs to bypass it. It doesn't provide a useful security feature, but it does lock out competition very well. Services requiring Apple App Attest or Google Play Integrity are primarily helping to lock in Apple and Google having a duopoly for mobile devices. Play Integrity is more relevant due to AOSP being open source. Governments are increasingly mandating using Apple's App Attest and Google's Play Integrity for not only their own services but also commercial services. The EU is leading the charge of making these requirements for digital payments, ID, age verification, etc. Many EU government apps require them. Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security. reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification will currently work with sandboxed Google Play on GrapheneOS but it clearly exists to provide a way for them to start using hardware attestation on systems without it. People without an iOS or Android device will be locked out when this is required even without that. This isn't about security or any missing functionality. GrapheneOS can be verified via hardware attestation. Google bans using GrapheneOS for Play Integrity because we don't license Google Mobile Services and conform to anti-competitive rules already found to be illegal in South Korea and elsewhere. Services shouldn't ban people from using arbitrary hardware and operating systems in the first place. Google's security excuse is clearly bogus when they permit devices with no patches for 10 years but not a much more secure OS. It's for enforcing their monopolies via GMS licensing, that's all.

@bennyjohnson Then investigators are lying, Ori Solomon is clearly a citizen of Israel who holds an Israeli passport (fact) and who has the same name as an Israeli linked pharmaceutical company CEO. Chinese Communist party & Israel have something in common, they hate America

“Investigators found thousands of vials of blood and tissue. Genetically engineered mice designed to carry COVID. Tests showed the vials contained COVID, Hepatitis, and Malaria. Investigators linked the lab to the CCP.”

@corbin_braun Helping local small businesses and entrepreneurs in retail and local services launch feature-rich loyalty apps via pwa Apple wallet and Google pay. HiScore.DGTLDash.com/promo

I’ll market your app for free to my 140K+ YouTube audience. Why? Because most founders aren’t losing to distribution. Your app is just bad. If you’re confident it’s not, reply.

@carlvellotti Claude

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@PierreDeWulf I use pwa's all the time! Mobile and desktop.

It’s been 10 years and I still don’t know a single person who uses a PWA on their phone. Great ideas, great execution, doesn’t matter. Adoption has its own weird kind of magic.

@JassHaughton @ArthurClaudeen @LeadingReport Then maybe they should do unto others as they wished unto themselves

@ArthurClaudeen @LeadingReport Your idiocy knows no bounds! Who said the US is neutral! Israel is a friend to the US. Iran is not! This is the country who chants “Death to America! Death to Israel!” So it’s clear we’re not neutral. Israel is our friend!

BREAKING: President Trump says Israel and Iran both broke the ceasefire agreement.

@weharrington @ArthurClaudeen @LeadingReport Do unto others as you wish done to yourself

@ArthurClaudeen @LeadingReport That's the dumbest shit I've heard today. You win.

@LamontVige @ArthurClaudeen @LeadingReport To unto others as you wish done to yourself

@ArthurClaudeen @LeadingReport That's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard in my life. The terrorists who run Iran are our enemy. Israel is our ally.

@Barbara_J_B @ArthurClaudeen @LeadingReport Do unto others as you wish done to yourself.

@Fsammynobads @ycsm1n Lord forgive them for they do not know.

@ycsm1n Sounds like God gave the pope one last chance to redeem himself but he failed, the plug was pulled from heaven. Now time for a Christian conservative to push against Islamic jihad worldwide.

not him passing away 4 hours after this. jd vance is the anti-christ confirmed

@RekhaPillayY @robbystarbuck @CollinRugg If you run it back in slomo you can see him start to calculate where he F'd up at 😂

@robbystarbuck @CollinRugg Honestly felt bad for him! Poor guy had no clue what he was doing

NEW: Man with a suspended license joins court Zoom call while driving in his car. This is the funniest video I've seen in a long time. Judge Cedric Simpson can be seen dumbfounded after defendant Corey Harris dialed into the meeting from his car. Simpson: "Mr. Harris, are you driving?" Harris: "Actually, I'm pulling into my doctor's office, actually. Just give me one second." Judge Simpson then revoked Harris's bond and ordered him to turn himself into the local jail. The incident happened in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

@robbystarbuck @CollinRugg Chill bro there's real criminals out here breaking into homes and worse, selling unsecured security systems. This guy was just pulling into his doctor's office and logging into his court date at the same time. If he was a single mom he'd be a "hero going through a hard time" lol

@CollinRugg Guilty of criminal stupidity. He deserves every day in jail the judge gives him.

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