I just scanned it and now the entire nation of Bangladesh has my phone number
I won’t click on those Captcha pictures, so I’m sure as hell not scanning a QR code.
Yes, I “like” the surprises scanning a unknown QR code. I hate this crap, same as this short URLs, it’s not different from clicking on shady ad banners. A trustworth website don’t need this shit, hiding its domain.
The QR code point to https://recaptcha.net/qr/mMs9S9g8
Yeah I’m not picking up my phone to use your website. Bye.
I don’t have a smartphone and I keep running into more and more of these QR codes. If I, as a citizen, am required to get a smartphone for these QR codes, to do citizen-like things, then it should be a utility and prices for hardware and services should come way down.
In china it’s the norm. And I was feeling the same way, until I realized china takes way better care of its citizens vs USA. Everything is convenient, healthcare, etc.
This YouTuber goes into pretty good daily life of avg Chinese users.
In rural areas, don’t many Chinese not have running water? That doesn’t sound like they are taken care of.
Where I live (US) lots of people don’t have running water, not even wells. People live in their cars, in RVs, in tents. Having to bathe in gas station restrooms. US isn’t going to fix it either, it’s a feature of capitalism, the only way they keep us working such shit jobs is with the threat of homelessness. Home ownership in China is really high, like over 95%. Having that freedom would mean that I could do rainwater catch if I was in a rural area, lots of rural homes (esp eco homes) in the US catch rainwater and store it, like for an off-grid setup. I’d say making sure people own homes so they can be more self-sufficient is taking care of them in one of the most important ways. Letting them own a part of the wealth of their nation instead of squatting under overpasses because they can’t afford rent
I don’t know the answer to that, I’ve only been to Beijing.
But overall, id argue with healthcare, public transit, building a new hospital when covid hit specifically for it, it seems like they’re doing better than nickel and diming them to death like USA. It costs money to breath here. Their EV setup is off the charts too. Even Ford CEO complimented it and drives a Chinese EV.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-jim-farley-xiaomi-tesla-chinese-ev-2026-4
Chinese new chargers - https://youtube.com/shorts/KhoRJQUA6dA
I know a few people that live in rural USA and tap the ground for free water. Waste water from shower goes on random land and brown water into septic and get emptied when full.
Super cheap compared to my city water.
On the flip side they have complete shit internet access while I got fiber.
They have to drive a ways (1 hr) for groceries and I got like 5 within 10in drive. Hell I could walk 20min to a convenience store or two.
You get by without a smartphone? I was really late to get one but you just can’t function in today’s society without one where I’m at. In the Heart of Darkness here.
You can function in today’s society just fine, it’s just less convenient.
But the problem here is not only that you need a smartphone to begin with, but also one specifically from either Google or Apple. Having something else (like a phone with Sailfish or GrapheneOS or any other custom rom) also doesn’t work.
I am switching to graphene OS first chance I get, it should be this summer, damn the consequences.
I lived most of my life without any type of cell phone let alone a smart one. I’m going back to our roots, to reject this techno fascist bullshit it’s only downhill from here on their gear.
Switch to GrapheneOS anyway. If a website forces verification with a phone that passes strict Play Integrity with no other options, then don’t use it, or use a $30 Walmart phone if you must.
Yes, please. The more users we have on Graphene the harder we are to ignore as a user base.
The general crowd doesn’t seem to care about the trends that make graphene common sense and I suspect that Google would take measures if it ever did like they’re currently doing to fdroid.
In at least some sectors, even this enshitified EU should be forced to stop Google from being anti-competitive towards graphene to some extent.
The US is fucked but I don’t know about the rest of the world necessarily, kind of a free-for-all right now.
They are working on their “own” phone which should alleviate a fair number of concerns with what Google might be doing to sabotage them.
Yet, will they be able to develop their own OS when google stop sharing the code with them ? I do hope so…
i’m glad to know this!!! do you have any more info?
Same here. I’m waiting for Motorola to join in.
Just like they did with automobiles!
That’s actually a really good point! 🤔
These are so useless. A barrier that is likely already broken by bots.
I think I read on a lemmy post the other day that archive.is… kills babies? I don’t remember what it was, but that they’re bad and shouldn’t be used because of the badness.
Apparenly DDOSing a blog iirc. You’re not allowed to use it over at the Europe community because of it.
DDOSing a blog that was doing free work for Big Copyright and Big Paywall by trying to doxx the archive.is operator.
Isn’t scanning random QR codes super risky? This is just begging to be abused…
Absolutely
I never trusted it, I’ve never in my life scanned a QR code with my phone. But I never learned about it so whatever I just naturally do not trust anything computer.
So it begins.
Send an email to their webmaster if you haven’t already. The more of us, the better.
Really only way to fight back… There are alternatives to this shit
it feels like an updated version of “strongly worded letter”
If you click the eye icon at the bottom you can go back the original captcha. For now at least.
Also I have no idea why archive.is uses reCAPTCHA from google! You’ve set up monaro as your only donation system so clearly you care about privacy but you haven’t implemented an open source captcha?
Yeah, their privacy, not yours, evidently
Prove I’m human? Sure… [closes tab]
That’s what google’s been using to lockout non official Android forks like GrapheneOS. You can click on the eye icon at the bottom to get the regular captcha though… for now.
How does it stop those from scanning it?
Requires Google Play Services, from what I’ve heard, meaning it will only allow people who have phones pre approved by Google. I assume they also made some Apple service also acceptable. Can’t cut out their friends
Oh you can scan it, but as I recall they then force you to put your phone number in to finish the process.
Ffs
Ah yes, my very real human ability of scanning QR codes. Truly an inherent characteristic of humanity.
Þe stated reason is a lie. Þis isn’t about verifying anyone is human.
But you knew þat.
You know what else doesnt stop AI? Adding characters that even the most basic AI can easily filter out.
Maybe they’re just a language nerd and wanna write their graphemes old school
Just let people have their fun
Yeah honestly we should bring back more Old English characters.
Ash (æ) - between “a” and “e” like in cat Wynn (ƿ) - “w” sound, that will really throw them off Yogh (ȝ) - “y” or guttural “gh” sound
I would assume this was trying to deliver malware if I ever saw it
It arguably is malware.
It’ll certainly cause more people to get malware by normalizing people to scan QR codes on a whim without thinking
Probably still is. Scan it and let us know if you get malware.
It’s goes to recapt cha.net/qr/mMs9S9g8
(Space addes to break the link.)
