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?

Send an email to their webmaster if you haven't already. The more of us, the better.

How does that even work?

Yeah, their privacy, not yours, evidently

It'll certainly cause more people to get malware by normalizing people to scan QR codes on a whim without thinking

I agree, and this is strictly because Google wants to kill forks like Graphene OS. Anybody who implements this is going to get their tab immediately closed on my browser and I'm never going back. I will have zero tolerance for this.

Isn't scanning random QR codes super risky? This is just begging to be abused....

It's easy to say this now. But what if, in a few years, 90% of websites and service providers use this?

You know what else doesnt stop AI? Adding characters that even the most basic AI can easily filter out.

Just let people have their fun

In hindsight I should have edited the QR code to redirect to that.

I'll be done using the internet!

These are so useless. A barrier that is likely already broken by bots.

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.

So it begins.

That's actually a really good point! 🤔

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.

It arguably is malware.

Apparenly DDOSing a blog iirc. You're not allowed to use it over at the Europe community because of it.

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.

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.

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.

Same here. I'm waiting for Motorola to join in.

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.

Really only way to fight back... There are alternatives to this shit

it feels like an updated version of "strongly worded letter"

Absolutely

i'm glad to know this!!! do you have any more info?

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

Yet, will they be able to develop their own OS when google stop sharing the code with them ? I do hope so...

They're working with Motorola.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

oic, i was already aware of motorola's partnership; i thought you meant that graphene was going to make their own phone.

thanks anyways, though; it's nice when people respond in good faith.

Just like they did with automobiles!

reCAPTCHA protects. your privacy

I love how they used that period. Seems way better than that lawyer guy from the Simpsons.

Yeah I'm not picking up my phone to use your website. Bye.

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.

https://www.expandurl.net/

The QR code point to https://recaptcha.net/qr/mMs9S9g8

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.

https://youtu.be/nRW_wh5mIek

This YouTuber goes into pretty good daily life of avg Chinese users.

Sorry, typo. 😬

In rural areas, don't many Chinese not have running water? That doesn't sound like they are taken care of.

I hope and think so. They're already way better and faster than Google at patching bugs and vulnerabilities on Android.

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.

Does it actually correct the links for you? Like use invideous rather than YouTube or correct the useless parameters automatically?

Fact!

And also their domain will be in my deny filters. Fuck this.

Is it legit that Anubis needs cookies?

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

https://youtu.be/TKMWZ5c1PMQ