By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/06/2026WEI wasn't an effort to level the playing field between apps and the web - it was *a race to the bottom*, an attempt to make the web as enshittogenic as the app hellscape. 44/ 1100
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/06/2026Public outrage to WEI killed the project, but Google's commitment to augmenting its illegal commercial lockdown efforts with *technical* lockdowns never ended. 45/ 160
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/06/2026Now, Google has rolled out an experimental "reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification" that uses an app, your camera, and your device's TPM or secure enclave to produce an attestation about your Android device: support.google.com/recaptcha/an... 46/support.google.comTroubleshoot reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification - reCAPTCHA HelpImportant: Mobile verification for Google Cloud Fraud Defense is an experimental challenge type in Preview. Visual and audio challenges 181
