• Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android.

  • Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification.

  • This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

    • ptu@sopuli.xyz
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      22 days ago

      I completely missed how Chrome took the market in 2010-2020. I thought everyone understood why it should be avoided, but here we are.

      • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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        22 days ago

        Everyone with a technically inclined, logical, forward-thinking brain did. Unfortunately, that probably at best describes no more than roughly 10-15% of people.