‼️🚨 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...
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One of the biggest lessons from Syria is that, just a month ago, almost no one could have predicted the Assad regime would fall today. The "realities on the ground" crowd would have denied such a possibility. A reminder of why people in Ukraine fight rather than surrender.
@petrokoriakin1 Таймер "скільки я працюю над поточною задачею", звіт "скільки чачу у відсотках на які активності" і плагін для intelliJ який показує кількість змін у LOC. Задача: сфокусуватись і доставляти постійно невеликими частинками.
This is what justice looks like under Islamic Sharia Laws:
Several Years ago, 15-years-old girl who was raped by her Muslim step-father was sentenced to 100 lashes because she wasn’t married to the man who raped her.
Only after global outrage, the rape victim's sentence was lightened.
Islam and Sharia laws must be reformed!
Link to the article: https://t.co/O02RgTnaII
8. The conventional wisdom in Ukraine is that their biggest mistake was to give up their nuclear arms.
The US has never protested against Israel having nuclear arms & it has not bombed North Korea because it has nukes.
The US promotes nuclear proliferation through its policies.
@timbray@yukihiro_matz I like an idea of federated decentralized media, but not everyone should immediately run to a new shiny thing. Happy to read Matz here, but if he is gone I'll regret he is not writing to social media anymore. Finally, how can you be sure he is not elsewhere on Fediverse? ;)
In 2017, a "non-profit" started receiving millions from Pharma to hire real (and fake) doctors to harass, censor and take away the medical licenses of anyone who challenged a "public health" narrative. This deadly censorship was then deployed for COVID.
https://t.co/kEUNJ1Yo39
@PeterSweden7 In the USSR, a private car was not a priority. Therefore, it had public transport, not for control but for economic reasons. Some factories had shuttle buses to get workers forth and back. What was the movement control was a lack of passports for the rural population. Mile tax 👎
Die Ampel in Deutschland hat Menschen von Festen und öffentlichen Veranstaltungen ausgeschlossen. Unschuldige waren dann „Kolateralschaden“.
Und dieses rassistische Dreckspack hat hier die Mehrheit.
NEW - The CCC warns that the German left-green-liberal government wants to "effectively end anonymity" and make all citizens "identifiable at all times and in all places," including by opening doors to Palantir and other surveillance software.
https://t.co/VEYx1HFJ9A