Google’s reCAPTCHA service is reportedly broken for users on de-Googled Android devices, raising accessibility and privacy concerns.
While Android users are effectively locked out, iOS users, even those running older versions, have more flexibility.
This is what I’m not understanding: are they doing user-agent sniffing or perhaps using a proprietary JavaScript API? Couldn’t de-Googled browsers just pretend to be iOS (as ugly as that would be)?
IOS users need to download the recaptcha app.
I’ve never had to install it; granted I only disable my Google blockers when I need to do something serious (like paying bills) but I’ve never installed the app.
It’s new and they have documentation. My guess is that the global rollout hasn’t been done yet and that it will come progressively.
Strange , not on my grapheneos
Maybe hasn’t rolled out worldwide yet.
And your device doesn’t have Google Play Services installed?
Nope, nothing with google
Impressive, i also have grapheneos and still have google play services. Sandboxed, but still there.
Oh wrote wrong person xD
I usually use obtainium to install my apps, omitting google is a lot of work, the hardest part was email adjustment to posteo.
HoneypotOS
how’s that
Fresh on hardware with undocumented instruction sets, etc. It continues to use the mobile network with SS7, etc.
Securephones (cryptophones) are banned for reason
Why limit it to specific hardware and so on? They chase after the sweet honey and fall into the trap like sheep.I think they make their hardware choices pretty well known. The documentation on the site is pretty thorough. They’re also very gradually broadening up to more vendors.
I’m not sure what you mean by the honeypot thing
Oh, so you just believe everything… Every CPU has undocumented instruction sets… For hardware to be trustworthy, it would have to be open-source… but that goes for SS7 and the like too… Oh, whatever—just trust your honeypot
You can’t trust mobilephones. Simple
cool but like, that doesn’t answer the question. do you use a phone? If so, which one?
wait are you my vanguard icefox? with the two little cats?
I use a totally ordinary Android phone with nothing important on it because I generally don’t trust the thing. Leave my cute cats out of this. xD I’d rather have a device knowing that I can’t trust it in principle than rely on an operating system when you still can’t trust the hardware.
But yea its me. Hey vik xD
https://youtu.be/fM5w7bFNvWI A great talk at 39C3
Proof or else its just blabla bla
It would be better to prove that it is secure. If you think about last year, for example (That applies to Qualcomm, so you’d have to check what hardware is installed. ) —CVE-2026-25262(But it’s only now making headlines)—the question remains: what hasn’t been discovered yet?
Oh look, grapheneOS was vulnerable… but it’s been fixed now https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35355-details-on-the-may-2026-android-security-bulletin (not same CVE)
The focus is still on what has been discovered; the question remains: what has not yet been discovered?
