Comment by dgrin91
21 hours ago
Maybe a dumb question, but how is this suppose to work for iphone users? They wont have google play, and it seems like android/google play is required here? There is no way they would cut out such a huge chunk of the market.
iPhone users will have to install the "reCAPTCHA" app. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recaptcha/id6746882749
This is detailed at https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652
What's up with the reviews? It's pure spam and the 1-star review is completely hidden.
Apple has device attestation deployed like one year before Google even proposed it: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-att...
hacker news when discovering that apple deployed WEI, for ages, with beloved IT company Cloudflare, affecting hundreds of millions of users: "aww, you're sweet"
hacker news when reading that google is doing the same thing for the rest of the userbase: "hello, human resources?"
I thought that cloudflare system worked on any hardware and the tokens are anonymous. Did that change at some point? If it didn't change, then yeah it should get a very different reaction!
(Edit: it looks like the new system is still private and still interlinked with the old system that lets you use any hardware? I think?)
Also I don't know how you could have missed the widespread criticism of apple and especially cloudflare on this site.
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Were you attempting to give us an example of the Goombah Fallacy? Because this is a picture perfect one.
Really. I think HN hates Cloudflare with (quite unjustified if you ask me) searing passion.
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The claim is that an iPad/iPhone will also work. Not that that makes it acceptable; if anything, it's worse, because if it were Google Play only it'd be more obvious how unacceptable it is, whereas catering to the duopoly makes it less obvious how much it excludes people and builds a reliance on proprietary systems.
One company can soon dictate who can enter the websites. And only two commercial operating systems are viable in the world after this change. Not nice.
iPhones have attestation too: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/devicecheck/establ...
It'll just be more clunky because you have to install their app.
I believe the latest versions of iOS just work from the browser, you only need to install the app for older versions of the OS.
I don't know what technology they're using, but when I scanned the QR code it launched (downloaded?) an iOS app of sorts with one tap, similar to the way Google tried Instant Apps a few years back. Didn't even need to double tap the power button like usual.
App Clips -- very underutilized but also very cool. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appclip
They also have Private Access Tokens: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k