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laughs in Firefox/Librewolf
Corpo banned it for compatibility with crap code apparently
No worries, play store-recaptcha is coming for you too!
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affects mobile the most obviously... but google's playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.
https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.
Looking forward to when they remove the old options & force PC users to scan reCAPTCHA QRs:
Those sites will be dead to me :)
QR codes are like the popups of days gone by. With incredibly few exceptions, I refuse to scan them. They are so easy to redirect for nefarious purposes, and you can’t easily inspect the url to know, assuming thats something you even do. Also my phone case covers the camera and it’s a bitch to get open so I’m very choosy with what gets camera time.
On my phone I use URLCheck (available in f-droid). You set it as your default browser app, but instead of opening a browser, it opens a popup where you can see the URL, and use some useful tools like removing tracking parameters or automatically rewriting x.com to xcancel.com. The rewritten URL can then just be forwarded to your actual browser (or whatever app is set up to handle that particular URL).
I still won't actually open random qr code URLs though, especially not ones from google.
How are people without phones expected to pass the captcha?
FF support is getting worse and worse though.
Barely any of the sites I use for work support FF.
Laugh all you want but shit is a bit fucked.
Ladybird is our last best hope and its barely a glimmer.
Fun fact: many sites that say that they don't support firefox lie, their sites usually support it but they never tested it or they deem firefox "less secure" or some bullshit, but with an useragent spoofer, they will work
(Not all sites ofc)
Wait, what sites don't work in firefox?
Yet to see one.
I've answered this so many times.
Banks, my uni, accounting software I use at work.
Its a well acknowledged and much discussed fact that the web is buggy with ff.
Wack. Its usually chrome that shits the bed. Or its because their app cant tolerate an adblocker.
Doesn't match up with my lived experience. Sorry for your loss.