I should be good with sandboxed Google play.

But wtf we’ll need a phone to solve captchas now? What happens if you don’t have one?

I'm using Firefox on GrapheneOS and recaptcha still works normally for me.

To anyone not switching because of this-- in my experience this is something I can work around. On most websites my captchas still work. I have had a few that dont work, and I just close the website and move on. It hasn't happened on any websites that are very important for me to visit. Usually its a store and they really me to install their stupid app. Nope.

Sites need to stop using recaptcha. It's an unnecessary barrier to using a site and I often refuse out of principle.

Smartphones are such an utter wretch nowadays, & I'm not even sure if there was a time they weren't. I don't get the appeal of a smartphone, they do everything a dumbphone does but worse, more expensive & with an unremovable thick layer of scum, yeah a smartphone has some of the features of a laptop or desktop but who needs that baked into their phone for every moment?

People are trying so hard to fix smartphones (even by giving money to the least privacy respecting companies ever by buying Google phones) when they can get a dumbphone and be rid of those problems in the first place. Well that's my opinion at least, I think it might be a bit extreme.

It's funny, I hadn't noticed, maybe because any site aleeady using reCAPTCHA or cloudflare alreadt gets blocked by my ad blocker... If those sites can't do better on their own, its just another thing you don't need. This is kind of a nothing burger. Stay strong and let google commit suicide.

I doubt OP cares, but I use GrapheneOS with Google Play services. It's still better than regular Android. Don't give up because you can't get 100%

phew, feels like I jumped the ship just in time. Installed PostmarketOS on my Fairphone a couple of months ago, and I'm not looking back.

We seriously need to ask Valve to make SteamOS phones.

Not only will they be good for gaming but imagine being able to put other OS'es on it like PC's. Bazzite, PostmarketOS, etc. Plus Valve will still get revenue from people using the upcoming Steam ARM Game Store, and the current Bannerhub/Gamenative community android apps that enable playing PC games they own from Steam/GOG on Phones

Its such a huge opportunity that we all should be encouraging then to pursue now and after they release their current 3 big projects: Steam Controllers, Steam Machines, Steam Frames

Don't give money to google by buying Pixel phones. Even buying used, creates demand as people are more likely to keep upgrading every year as they know it will be easy to sell their used Pixels for a good price.

Choosing not to buy one now isn't going to help anything at all.

One more reason to switch to a Linux phone like Jollas new phone.

I don't use the internet for much these days, but I am on graphine OS and I have yet to be blocked from websites due to it. My adblocker prevents me from some, and not allowing javascript prevents me from some, but I've never seen that QR code or had any site prompt fro Google play services

Which websites does this actually affect? I use GrapheneOS and I've yet to be affected by this, granted I don't use many mainstream services.