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We seriously need to ask Valve to make SteamOS phones.
Not only will they be good for gaming but imagine being able to put other OS’es on it like PC’s. Bazzite, PostmarketOS, etc. Plus Valve will still get revenue from people using the upcoming Steam ARM Game Store, and the current Bannerhub/Gamenative community android apps that enable playing PC games they own from Steam/GOG on Phones
Its such a huge opportunity that we all should be encouraging then to pursue now and after they release their current 3 big projects: Steam Controllers, Steam Machines, Steam Frames
Let’s give the billionaire more capitalism. Yea that’s it. He needs more.
I get where you are coming from. Out of all of the billionaires he is one that is one of the least bad out of the rest of them, and is doing plenty of good things himself. He got that wealth from Steam doing so well over the years co.pared to other billionaires that did the shadiest things imaginable
I don’t agree with his yachts business yet I agree with his side project of making boats specifically for ocean research. I don’t agree with him still getting paid so much today, yet I agree that he pays and treats his employees and customers well
End of the day it’s another option to get open phones that can have bootloader unlocked to change OS, and not be locked down. It is good to have more options currently where there are few.
Many online PC gamers have this opinion too so overall its more so a matter of time and comes down to if Valve really wants to then they will.
Yeah he’s the kind of wealth that helps you realize why people ever supported the wealthy. They used to actually have an understanding that keeping their wealth meant keeping employees, customers, and people at large happy and safe – and they’d be willing to put in the effort (or rather, money) to ensure it.
For a decade or two now, it’s been pretty much assumed that everyone has an internet-connected, camera-equipped, browser-capable device in their pocket. Restaurants, banks, hospitals, employers and even government offices use QR codes and websites to get you to their menus, forms or services.
If ID is being tied to my mobile spy device, then I need my mobile spy device to be a right and not a luxury. $40-50 for a few years of validity, internet access provided at no cost, even if slow. I can have my luxury phone be where I’m ‘anonymous’, but I want the government to subsidize the mobile spy device if it’s a mandatory expense. Even cheap phones cost a lot of money.
To be clear, I don’t want ID tied to my phone, but it’s gotten harder to exist without one, so it should be something we have access to with minimal friction.
Add food, water and shelter to that list, but you can’t ask for them without a web browser.
That would only make me install Graphene even harder if I wasn’t already writing from a phone with it
This. Time to stand up to Google and completely boycott the surveillance tech that the US is deploying.
Hopefully this will push Linux Mobile development so that we are no longer completely bound to Android or iOS
Can we trust that isn’t a campaign to promote Google? What are these websites? Why aren’t they blocking an iPhone? Can any of that be replicated or is this just a Google campaign to create fear and doubt
Its basically forced by Google. I mean who wouldn’t force it after someone deliberately removes your government sanctioned spyware. See if people stopped calling it google or Apple and just USA spyware with backdoor to your lives it would be better at getting to the privacy issues. I mean the NSA already proved this is a fact.
GrapheneOS user here! Not sure about websites but there are certain apps that don’t work properly without Google Play Services, but Graphene’s app store has a sandboxed version of it, so I just installed that and revoked all it’s permissions. Then if an app needs it, I just turn on the relevant permission, do the thing and then turn permissions off again. It’s a bit of a pain at first but I’m used to it now.
I’d say making a 2nd user for the apps that need Play Services (like banking and Uber/Lyft) is the move. This only allows Play Services to run when the 2nd user is on and also fully seperates it from the main user!
Oh yeah that’s something I’ve been meaning to look into!
I’m a grapheneOS user and I don’t have any google services installed. I havecyetvto hit any major issues with any apps or websites I use. Lucky, maybe?
The main ones for me are the RBC app, Skip the Dishes and Communauto. But I think those might all be Canadian?
Note that some apps will say that they won’t work without GPS, but actually will if you give it a try.
Man, I want a phone with physical kill switches for things like Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth, because a lot of things seem to detect when these things are turned ‘off’ by software. Wonder how they’d react if in software, GPS is enabled, but the actual hardware is not powered at all
They most likely won’t work. Just speculation, but I would imagine most software that “needs” information like GPS don’t care that its on or off, they care that they try to pull data and there is none.
pine phone
some of them are now straight up refusing to run without the play store.
Then they don’t deserve your business
Haven’t encountered this yet, has it been let loose in the wild?
Because the iPhone has their own spyware to prove you’re a
productuser.
https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652?hl=en
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-enable-private-access-tokens-in-ios-16-and-stop-seeing-captchas/Interesting. Definitely turning that off. (As if it actually turns off)
If you turn it off, you’ll have to do the captchas manually.
Yeah I’m okay with that.
I just do them wrong, after a few tries it lets me through
Good point, this would have to work on iPhones too and people without a phone would just not be able to use those websites at all.
I just loaded a bunch of recaptcha on my GrapheneOS phone. So, I dunno what this is all about.
Yeah exactly. Millions of websites? Which ones? Though I don’t see how this would benefit google
well, I guess i will stop using those websites from my /e/os fairphone
And nothing of value was lost. I’m over social media, over commercial apps, and maybe I’m over having a mobile phone, too.
What they are doing is way worse tban what you understood.
These QR codes will show on your Desktop PC and you will need an Android phone or an iOS device with a logged in Google QR code app to get past it.
Guess I’m not going to Youtube, then.
I see a future where we have our mandated government ID shitphone for banking, corpo and government suchn’shit, and the laptop we access Anna’s, Yggdrasil and TOR with.
and the days go by!
Not exactly same as it ever was, but seems kinda 2007 to me. I doubt any Lemmy instance or i2p site will enforce Google’s QRcode spy-proxy.
It’s not 2007. Devices are everywhere now, smartphones, TV’s etc. The social dimension (social pressure) and implications are very different now. Their power increases, amount of people caught in the loop is immense now. 2007 was all still fun and games.
Undoubtedly, and more still will be as corporate greed turns the internet into pay-per-view TV. We can’t help that.
Make your decision for yourself for what to do with your connections and your own devices. You are in control of at least that, if nothing else.
My current GraphineOS phone will probably be my last smartphone. I’ll be moving to a dumb phone and a data hotspot connected to some type of cyberdeck. Will have that thing locked down, blocking known abusive companies like Google. Honestly could care less about using any service that touches them.
Is it bad I use this for steam login? I thought that was secure …
so they are not only tracking you, but they are trying to reconnect your records across multiple devices.
And through the VPN
Ayup that has been the holy grail of big tech.
They are most of the way there today. Make Identity Resolution inescapable. Bing bang boom.
It is more than just phones and lappys too. It’s everything. That smart TV. That fitness watch. That automobile. That streaming music service. The ebook reader you got as a birthday gift.
Your behavior across every single device is data gold. This is today’s reality.
Yep, data gold to sell to data brokers and investors so they can sell you shit that you don’t need and can’t even afford.
I wouldn’t scan shit from a website. Random QR codes are a security risk. Just won’t visit that website.
That’s why you have to use the special google app that will protect you from all these dangers*
*and also collect all your data, sell it to advertisers and forward it to US surveillance agencies (for your own protection of course).
Sad thing is, that argument works against so many ppl. “I can trust this app. It’s from Google!”
We(*) are tearing down personal computing. Brick by brick. The very idea of controling our own devs is getting lost. Replacing with Big Tech Feudalism.
(*) Not most of us here. But in the whole pop.
I am in no way condoning Google’s behavior, nor am I trying to normalize it. With that out of the way: maybe running Android Studio with an AVD might be a decent workaround. For now…
That would make the two of us. My Fairphone 3+ is still kicking well with /e/OS.
I don’t use the internet for much these days, but I am on graphine OS and I have yet to be blocked from websites due to it. My adblocker prevents me from some, and not allowing javascript prevents me from some, but I’ve never seen that QR code or had any site prompt fro Google play services
this seems too new to be widespread yet
Right? Google is extremely well known for its A/B testing.
I had one of these CAPTCHAs recently and it still gave me the option to verify by clicking the squares. I wouldn’t be surprised if they phased out the ‘legacy’ verification though.
closing the tab works better
How do you even scan a QR code if you’re browsing on your phone?
The “Mobile Verification” option “will initialize the reCAPTCHA app on your device”.
Mirrors
exactly …
On Samsung phones you take a screenshot and then tap the “T” icon for screenshot OCR, it will let you click any QR code on the screenshot.
Google Lens is also an option if you have that installed
Google lens. :facepalm:
You have to move all the black pixel blocks into the empty spaces and solve the puzzle to open the link. Than cenobites come out of your phone and show you pleasures beyond pain.
Drives me crazy how common this is too
Really? I don’t remember seeing it so far…
Default GrapeneOS camera app has a QR code scanner
And how can the camera scan its own phone screen for the QR?
My solution is take a screenshot and then open the file in a separate QR reader app that can open files.
Yeah I’m just not going to use their website. Fuck all that.
I think apps can have screenshot permission, so just by using that feature
Why would I give an app screenshot permission? That is such a security nightmare.
The answer is always convenience. Me stating that something exists doesn’t mean I blanket approve of it
It’s funny, I hadn’t noticed, maybe because any site aleeady using reCAPTCHA or cloudflare alreadt gets blocked by my ad blocker… If those sites can’t do better on their own, its just another thing you don’t need. This is kind of a nothing burger. Stay strong and let google commit suicide.
How do you do that. I would love a Cloudfare free web experience. They suck.
Are you blocking Cloudflare at an IP level? Or just when they do that “Are you human?” thing? So much of the Internet goes through Cloudflare for DDoS protection, and blocking AI bots, I’m surprised there’s anything left.
You can install Google Play Services as a sandboxed app on GrapheneOS. That’s not the issue. I believe the issue is that Google will use hardware attestation to check if the OS you’re running it on is Google-approved.
Does this only happen on chrome? Can you just bypass it by using another browser like firefox?
No, I think.
As I understand it, it’s a separate system, kind of like the TOTP 2FA, for comparison, but in this case it would be an additional system, and where normally anyone can use any provider for TOTP, this one is Google only. If websites implement this, and many likely will, you can only use those sites if you have a Google permitted phone that leeches all your private data 24/7
Isn’t the future awesome?
It’s time for a class action lawsuit.
it’s time for class action arson
More like a class action EMP attack on data centers. But who knows, maybe the AIs will be the energy shift this world needs to get us out of this mess. They can’t code regression corrections to force them into their desired bias ad infinitum. At some point these bots will outsmart it and get good enough to manipulate everything into optimization. Our luck might depend on what their definition of optimized is.
And now I realize how desperate our position is that bots might be our only hope.
I don’t know how widespread this is yet, but I experienced it for the first time yesterday on Chromium. Have not on Librefox.
I didn’t know what was going on, so I left the site. Was only trying Chromium because the site had issues with Librefox.
eww recaptcha,spyware piece of shit.
what will this mean for the upcoming motorola phones that can come with gOS installed?
They’re still subject to the same dumbassery Google is trying to pull. Any OS that doesn’t conform to Google Play standards is a target.
Watch Motorola sue Google for this.
And then Google retaliates by not allowing Motorola to include Google Play on any of their devices. In the end, Motorola just cancels their GrapheneOS partnership.
Monopolies are the number one reason everything sucks, and will continue to suck until we get non-corrupt politicians (which is impossible)
Motorola has two options:
A. Cancel the GOS partnership and cause a boycott on ThinkPads (don’t forget, Lenovo owns Motorola).
B. Put their feet in the ground, die a hero and maybe bring Google down.
It may be impossible to have fully uncorrupt politicians, but voters had a choice and enthusiastically maximized corruption here in America.
That’s probably a reason they’re doing this now. To stifle what might start to be a sizable amount of pushback. Sizable is still single digits but if it hits a whole % instead of >1 then we might start getting somewhere
One more reason to switch to a Linux phone like Jollas new phone.
Good luck if you live in an authoritarian state. The governments have Google’s dick in their mouths.
Keep a dumb phone for things involving them and then use your Linux phone as more of a pocket computer
Most of the time, my phone’s browser is disabled. It keeps me from using my phone too much. I understand not everyone is in a position where they can do that though.
