‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed.
GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.
What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.
The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...
#Linux 7.0.5, 6.18.28, 6.12.87, 6.6.138, 6.1.171, 5.15.205, and 5.10.255 kernels are now available for download at https://t.co/QL8B8KbIcG to patch the new "Dirty Frag" security vulnerability.
#OpenSource
The most iconic bar in gaming history has finally made its way into the real world.
Tokyo just launched a perfect recreation of Tifa Lockhart's Seventh Heaven where fans can enjoy themed cocktails and authentic Midgar vibes.
You might even find a hidden entrance to a secret basement meeting room if you look closely?
Who would you choose to bring along for a night out in Sector 7?
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@AFpost LLMs output is weighted to agree with you claude has fucntions to search for profanity to see if the user is getting frustrated. Their personality is sycophancy, why is it so easy for "AI" to one shot boomers? Read the chinese room experiment.
.@910Panthers it is weak minded people like you who are everything that is wrong with the world you are the pathetic scum of the earth you are Nietzsche's last man
Hey @910Panthers look at this, the PSL on national workers day (May Day).
You used Ad Hominems and Appeal to Authority to dodge the facts, then moved the goalposts once history proved you wrong. You're just cycling fallacies to avoid conceding.
you are a zealous ideolog
So we are ALL on the same page...
North Carolina educators cancelled school for MY KID and 700,000 other kids yesterday...
...to march with MEXICAN AND PALESTINIAN FLAGS and yell about President Trump
It was NEVER about the students.
HOW WAS THIS EVER ALLOWED?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So we are ALL on the same page...
North Carolina educators cancelled school for MY KID and 700,000 other kids yesterday...
...to march with MEXICAN AND PALESTINIAN FLAGS and yell about President Trump
It was NEVER about the students.
HOW WAS THIS EVER ALLOWED?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@WallStreetApes CI/CD pipelines are a thing for a reason. If you’re dumb enough to vibe code on your production server you deserve the consequences of it.
Ai is also not intelligent at all it is an algorithm that generates the most statistically average data. No thought just a Chinese room.
@bobkovgobson@FoxNews 😂😂😂😂 was that supposed to be a got ya? Dude I’m laughing so hard right now because you lack the cognitive ability to regulate your emotions