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Thanks for clarifying that this only affects Google Androids.
Androids without Google are unaffected
De-Googled devices got screwed over by reCAPTCHA turning completely into DRM by mandating GMS. And this also affects Linux phones and desktops too, if you come across this new reCAPTCHA on desktop, you gotta get you Google Android or iOS device to scan the QR code to authenticate and pass the captcha, on your desktop, and Linux phones I assume are SOL completely.
What are you talking about? I never see ReCAPTCHA on my degoogled android.
Probably because my browser has JS disabled. Broken websites are broken websites. Yawn.
Thanks! 🙂 I'll go through them. So, it's really happening?
That doesn't really help. I need to know how to completely disable updates on my phone.
You can't disable updates to Google Play Services.