Phishing campaign authors will love this. It normalizes users scanning barcodes they can’t read to go to unknown locations on a device where it’s harder to see the URL and there’s no IT watching for phishing activity.
Awesome. Something to keep me away from big wrbsites and on the small web.
This is it, what they’ve been wanting all along. You will no longer be able to access vast swathes of the internet unless you have a Google approved device, that is a Google-certified Android device with Google Play Services (aka Google Play Spyware) or an app on iOS. Use GrapheneOS or a Linux phone? No internet for you.
What I’d like to know is, what if you’re already accessing a site from your phone? And what if you genuinely don’t have another device? I’m assuming the answer to the second is you’re SOL.
They say it’s a QR code challenge, resistant to bots, but what does it to? How does it work?
Scan a Google tracking QR code, nope. Not to mnention how easy would it be to hide a malicious URL in a QR code. Nope, nope, nope.
This is a “trust me bro” vibe from Google. Guess sites will just have to deal with a drop in traffic. Cuz they’re not getting any more data from me if I can help it
