• Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19 minutes

    Do Google employees actually do anything other than sit around thinking of ways to make things worse? In the last few years we’ve had web environment integrity (thankfully that one seems to have been dropped), gutting the AOSP to the point where it’s practically unusable on its own, Android developer verification, play integrity, QR code captchas and now this

  • gibmiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    I will not do this. Whatever services require this i will not use.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    The videos are never associated with a user’s identity and are deleted after the verification process. Audio is never recorded.

    I actually believe them. It’s gonna start out this way. But in a year or two, they’ll quietly slip in a provision stating they will hold on to the images for a short time for security purposes, then they will say that they will associate your image with your identity to make it more secure, then Google’s AI will know everything about everyone (and sell the info to the highest bidder)

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      It should be considered a universal law of corporate behavior: any information that has theoretical value will eventually be sold.

      Even if current management has no intention of exploiting it, they’ll be replaced by the board, or the division and its data will be spun off and sold for its IP—that’s how corporations work by nature. (As Stafford Beer would say, the purpose of a system is what it does.)

    • Burninator05@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      I believe them as well from a very literal perspective. The video will be deleted but the metadata that is created from the video will not.

    • undefinedValue@programming.devEnglish
      3 hours

      That’s just v1. At some point they’ll realize that bots can deepfake a human waving and they’re going to want to truly verify it’s you by verifying the position of moles on your body… Then they’ll have to save your data… to secure your account!

      Soon they’ll realize to get good mole data they’ll need you to show more skin, as some people don’t have much on their face and their clothing could be hiding those juicy datapoints.

      That’s when v2 hits. Flash google your titties to secure your account, don’t worry it’s super secure and we never share your titties with law enforcement agencies unless it’s required by law!

      You’ll be walking through your local library because tech has gone to far and you need to unplug but as you walk by the rows of shared computers it’ll all be old people flashing their titties at the screen to continue watching ads on YouTube.

    • br3d@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      This will be like the proof of age face scans. Yes, the VIDEO is deleted, but the unique biometric code describing your face sure as hell won’t be deleted. Focusing on deleting the video has got to be a deliberate distraction

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    Calling it: In the future we will learn that they have been using it to gather face recognition data and have been using it to track their users in the real world by partnering with the likes of Flock.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 hours

      The video gets deleted, they say. But they don’t say what happens to the data derived from that video. Training models and such.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      4 hours

      Reasonable bet if they didn’t already have root on devices in people’s pockets, with cameras pointing at their faces for hours per day. Along with GPS, cell, WiFi and Bluetooth location services.

    • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      I would love to not have YT in every corner of the internet though. I wonder how developers of Youtube forks will deal with this?

      • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
        4 hours

        You need another YouTube. Free for anyone to post, the same volume, the same storage. Nebula is elite and paid. You and I can’t post on it. The others I’ve seen contain a handful of conspiracy theorists and Linux people.

  • Intheflsun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    Do they have any idea the sheer volume of penis helicopters they are going to record by doing this?

    • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Headlines in a year from now “Google’s Contractor for Recaptcha Video Analysis suffering PTSD after seeing so many dicks and assholes”

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    “Rest assured, the video is TOTALLY deleted, bro… but we will take about 120 still screenshots per second as a backup.”

    “Oh weird, if you look at these screenshots real fast it’s almost like they move, haha, fun!!”

  • AppleMist@feddit.ukEnglish
    4 hours

    It says in the docs:

    "## Accessibility

    For users with accessibility needs who cannot use hand gestures to complete the challenge, reCAPTCHA continues to provide visual and audio challenges, and develop more accessible and secure alternatives."

    So it seems you can just do a different task if you don’t want to do the hand thing anyway.

    Edit: obligatory F google still of course.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
      3 hours

      For now.

      Also the last time I tried using the audio option on recaptcha it felt like a psychotic break.