The fact that mobile devices are now mandatory to prove "humanness" means that Google no longer trusts desktop/open platforms anymore.

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pixelmelt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Im in the community reverse engineering web CAPTCHAs, it's because they are too easy to reverse engineer with Claude now.

I've seen multiple people break botguard (the obfuscation used by recapcha) within the last year when before it was considered a huge technical envour.

Devices like phones don't have this issue since Google owns the client attestation end to end and can fingerprint you without the risk of receiving spoofed values.

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dredmorbius 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Where is this specified? I don't see that in TFA.

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luma 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The example they give in TFA is having the user scan a QR code, presumably from a mobile device.

	▲	bryan_w 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But that's not a specification

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skinfaxi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think they are jumping ahead but it does seem like a logical conclusion. Would tie in nicely with the online ID verification stuff popping up everywhere.

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charcircuit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does anybody trust it? MacOS seems to be the only desktop platform I see be trusted.