Fuck you, Google.

Don't have a webcam on my desktop (main PC) and I have no intention of getting one.

Absolutely not. Go fuck yourselves. There's not a person in the world who I would do this for.

So what's stopping me from using OBS as a virtual camera and feeding it a stream of stock footage of someone waving their hand?

It can try, but I'm not doing that. I will stop using everything that requires it.

For reasons like this, my webcam is only plugged in when I actively need it.

Even more reason to DeGoogle your computers

• https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.clombardo.dnsnet/
• https://grapheneos.org/ * https://postmarketos.org/
• https://www.fairphone.com/ * https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
• https://librewolf.net/ * https://www.waterfox.com/
• https://codeberg.org/ironfox-oss/IronFox * https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
• https://www.ecosia.org/ * https://qwant.com/ * https://searxng.org/
• https://immich.app/ * https://nextcloud.com/
• https://www.comaps.app/ + https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rhvoice.android/
• https://signal.org/ * https://element.io/en
• https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
• https://bitwarden.com/ * https://joplinapp.org/
• https://www.qobuz.com/
• https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.email/ * https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fsck.k9/
• https://tuta.com/secure-email

Privacy nightmare aside, is it just me or does this sound a lot less secure than the find the bus bullshit they do now? Seems like it would be much easier for a bot to generate a realistic looking hand wave than interpret increasingly obscure photo puzzles.

Jokes on them, I have no webcam.

Fuck that

Saying “WILL” is clickbait.

As many have pointed out, they can’t force this.

So can I just use the OBS virtual camera with a video of somebody waving

Uh yeah, it most certainly will not.

Google can turn on my webcam all it wants. They can't see through the sticky tape anyways.

Waving is something robots already could in the 80s.

And it says "When the hand gesture feature is enabled, reCAPTCHA collects the following data:".
When it gets forced, we talk again.

Web cam? I don't have one on my computer, what now?

Can the AI identify which finger I'm waving too?

If I have to do face verification at some point I am using a pic of Harold. I am almost 70.

Doesn't AI work great for this, what with those AIs that turn Reddit mods into anime cosplayer girls?