Sounds like googles got a model that can mimic human hand gestures really well and want to prevent other companies from being able to scrape the Internet for AI training
Future headline: Gemini sign language interpreter frequently flips the bird to absolutely everyone.
We’re not sure how this got into the training data…
that’s gonna be a “nope” from me, dawg.
“Drink verification can.”
No cam on my pc…
(and I’m not even going to tell this little fact to them)
Please rub the verification can to continue.
I have a hand gesture for it.
I don’t care what site it is but if i get that popup i won’t be visiting that site anymore.
… I have no camera.
This new CAPTCHA’s prejudicial and exclusionary.
Not to mention grotesquely invasive.
Some people have no hands. Are those people supposed to wave their stump around? What about people who don’t even have stumps?
Also, some people who have arms can’t wave them around very easily, or at all
Turns out, I am no longer human
This is the biggest “hell no” thing I’ll probably see this week.
Fun fact: Phone cameras now have enough resolution for AI to get your fingerprints off a photo
I’m just gonna moon the camera.
Definitely trying to make hands less fake looking
no, they just want pictures of you doing gang signs, just in case they arrest you
Fuck. That. No website is worth that.
Ppl say this with such conviction but what about your bank website? What if it becomes industry standard and you have no other options? Just going to keep all your money in cash?
French banks don’t have that kind of external captcha. They are paranoid about it for good reasons. Also fuck Google, they are not worth it.
I have never seen a captcha (much less a third-party service one) on my bank website. And the day I do is the day I walk into a branch and demand all my accounts be closed on the spot so I can take my business somewhere else. I understand the fear, but if the fear comes true, then this is a hill worth dying on. Be prepared to fight. We have to fight.
My previous bank was messing me around and making things awkward for me, so I rang them up and told them they needed to fix it to go back to the way I wanted, or I was taking our current account and savings accounts elsewhere. They just told me they couldn’t by policy. I made a complaint. They said they couldn’t by policy.
I did my research over the next couple of weeks and then I walked into a branch and asked for a printout of all my direct debits and standing orders. The teller did as I asked. That evening I got a phone call apologising and offering me exactly what I asked for.
No. Fuck you. You didn’t listen, you didn’t believe me, you just shat on me for as long as you thought it didn’t affect you, and then as soon as you saw I evidence I was serious now you want to fix it? No. Fuck off. Good riddance. I got myself a new bank thank you very much, where I got to choose how it worked.
The time to keep me was when I asked nicely or when I asked nicely again or when I complained. Once I’ve put time in researching other options, it’s way too late.
What is the significance of the print-out of direct debits and standing orders?
Before the EU legislated that banks should all make it easy to automatically transfer all bill payments etc over to a new current account, you would need to set these up yourself on your new account. There’s only one reason really that you would ask for all of that information, and the bank knew I was taking physical action to leave them.
Banking works just fine without apps and websites. They mail you a statement every month. You have a local branch for deposits and withdrawals. They give you a plastic card you can use to make purchases and withdraw from ATMs.
I deleted my banking app off my phone because it asked me for a selfie lol. I will absolutely switch banks over this.
Yep. Me too.
I will probably first switch banks. Maybe ask EU for anti monopoly?
I have a hard time believing all banks, including local credit unions, will simultaneously adopt this tech. And if they all do, maybe will I have to consider cash after all. But in the meantime, I’ll switch to a banking solution that doesn’t.
Fair enough. But I wasn’t picturing them simultaneously doing it.
Enshittification is a contagious disease that spreads slowly.
I changed banks when they asked for 2FA.
Why?
Probably SMS or in-app 2FA. That’s what annoys me about banks: they claim to do things for security – which in their case it makes sense because they don’t need to harvest data to make money – but then go ahead and roll their own instead of using standards.
I refuse to have a phone line. I only get one for a month when I’m looking for a job. Got tired of paying a subscription fee just to get spam calls. All my communication is done through messaging apps and the only time I don’t have access to wifi is when I’m driving.
Just a heads up, you can get a free phone number from Google, and probably other providers. If you’ve got a computer of some kind and an internet connection, you can make calls and texts from there. If that’s all you’re getting a phone for, don’t bother with the actual device.
https://support.google.com/voice/answer/115061?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
I don’t know about Google’s “free” numbers, but third-party VOIP numbers are usually blocked for 2FA verification. I’ve tried that. Most places won’t accept it, because they know you’re trying to get around the tracking. The 2FA isn’t the point, and the cost of the phone isn’t the point, the tracking is the point, and Google’s “free” numbers are absolutely tracking you just as effectively as any telecom is.
Yeah, it isn’t good for 2FA, and obviously your data is being collected. If all you need it for is job applications though, it does that.
Google Voice user for 15 years and I’ve had about 3 instances where my number wasn’t usable for 2FA, mostly because, to your point, by the time companies that care about security learned about voip #s they realized they are mostly used legitimately and sms was insecure anyway. Luckily I found a great FOSS auth app, which I prefer to sms anyway; especially if traveling I don’t have to depend on a mobile connection to be able to complete 2FA.
I use SMS Pool
And because SMS 2FA is actually opening a common attack vector. I have yet to find a credit union I qualify for that uses TOTP or Yibikey.
That still requires getting personal information about the user, which is often enough without 2FA. 2FA still makes it more secure than not having it. It’s still a vulnerable step though, so users should be aware of that.
In Sweden the banks offer a choice between an app and a hardware token. You can just go with the token then.
Ppl say this with such conviction but what about your bank website?
Prepaid debit cards exist. Load money at any convenience store. You can even get a routing number/account number for it so you can direct deposit to it. You call a number to check your balance or lock your card.
What if it becomes industry standard and you have no other options?
There’s no such thing on the internet. Most lemmy instances with a captcha use hcaptcha or similar since its cheaper (free, in fact), as an example.
What about investments?
Loading prepaid debit cards at gas stations sounds like a rough life. I’d like to think that I’d have more conviction for privacy if it came to that, but everyone has their line I guess.
What about investments?
Doesn’t affect 90+% of people, and the remaining population frankly doesn’t deserve privacy since they don’t have anything to complain about.
Loading prepaid debit cards at gas stations sounds like a rough life. I’d like to think that I’d have more conviction for privacy if it came to that, but everyone has their line I guess.
Genuinely not bad unless you’re a complete shut-in. It’s also how the bottom 20% of Americans deal with online bill pay and interact financially with the digital world.
If you’re living under capitalism and not investing in any way, that’s not really some noble act, it’s you voluntarily staying broke and dependent on others in the future.
Should at least have some form of retirement fund going so you don’t have to leech off the taxes paid by the young when you’re old.
If you’re living under capitalism and not investing in any way, that’s not really some noble act, it’s you voluntarily staying broke and dependent on others in the future.
I’ll let you know when I magically have spare money in the worst global economy since the great depression.
Should at least have some form of retirement fund going so you don’t have to leech off the taxes paid by the young when you’re old.
No one checks their 401k often. Most people don’t consider that investment given its a scam they likely won’t ever cash in.
USA people don’t have a state pension?
Man you sound so brainwashed to me. Very American.
You have to be pragmatic in life and play the hand you are dealt. I’m a commi at heart but not playing the capitalist circus just makes you homeless, not smart.
Very much not American but still investing what I can because no fucking way is the pension system still going to be there in 50 years, we haven’t produced enough children in decades.
Fuck that.
