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Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to challenge them. Another day another Google take over the world, open web and mobile ecosystems. This battle seems to be lost already because governments are ignoring shenanigans of Google.

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Asterisk 🇨🇦4d ago

@nixCraft The funniest part is that a lot of apps use Google libraries (which means most "degoogled" setups aren't actually degoogled) which can act like a copy of Play Services themselves, so those apps could be a viable option for verification if Google insists on an app, but Google's gotta have that invasive Play Services access, right?

edit: Blog post because the article above doesn't cite its sources:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha

Introducing Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA | Google Cloud Blog

Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.

Google Cloud Blog

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M/KΞ 🇪🇺2d ago

@asterisk @nixCraft no because you need to be "licensed" by google to have access to their crap of device atestation, so no if you have a degoogled OS it will not work.

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Asterisk 🇨🇦

@hidikem @nixCraft You need to be licensed to pass the extra checks, yellowboot OSes like Graphene pass the basic check, but yeah they obviously use the extra ones that only allow greenboot CTS certified builds.