cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/49133953
the article neglected to link to google’s page about this:
https://docs.cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/hand-gesture-verification
Look, I’m waving: 🖕
Google can go fuck itself with a rusty rake, I’m not doing that.
Yeah, there’s no way I’m giving Google access to my camera.
PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
Do rude gestures count? There’s no way I’m giving anything google-related access to my camera.
It’d detect profanity and reject scanning it further, because there could be children watching your verification clip. Then the whole thing would be given to an Indonesian bloke to review instead
Nuh-uh, not happening.
You might. I sure as shit won’t be. I am finally free of everything google (except it somewhere in my backend via searxng). I have liberated my phone, my files, my email, everything. I am google free and fuck it feels good.
I hardly ever read websites anymore. My AI agent does that for me. Running an openweight model with a custom lora finetune on my own hardware. But yeah I would encounter recaptch on various sites I need to navigate myself like portals and such.
I need to de-google but it seems exhausting. I’ve had Gmail since like 2006 and everything in Drive and Photos.
Yeah I did it slowly over a period of time. I started with learning self hosting and moving over files with next cloud. Then got Immich for my photos. Changing over email was a huge pain in the ass tho even tho their wasn’t much I actually used so killed hundreds of linked accounts and set up forwarding rules for anyone in my contacts. As been running GrapheneOS for a while so had already killed most apps that needed play services and sandboxed the rest. Would recommend comaps for navigation its good but lacks address numbers and a lot of places (at least here in Australia).
It’s a pain but the feeling of true digital sovereignty is amazing.
