This API also works on the desktop. In fact, you can't use this system without a phone if your browser isn't Google enough.
We are going to see sooooo many scams out there. No wonder Google is locking down third party Android apps outside of their control, getting a user to install "device verification.apk" will become super trivial after people have clicked through these popups a couple times.
It is, just like a calculator is a small computer. It's not a personal computing device though, in the sense that the user can't develop and deploy their own software/tools on it.
No one should ever browse the web from an ESP32 either. Like seriously the dark patterns are bad enough from a desktop where you've actually got the screen real estate to see the whole page, have other sites open for comparison, have a keyboard to type your own notes, etc. Most browsing can simply wait, especially the adversarial-commercial type we're talking about here.
A device I have no choice in owning because modern employers assume you have sometime to install an authenticator app on. That's what it is for me. Also, sadly, it's an anchor for Signal. Otherwise I don't use the stupid thing.
and it seems Google wants to support people like you!
That entire QR barcode thing is so that you can browse the web on your laptop/desktop, and _still_ rely on smart phone's attestation, no mobile browser needed.
This API also works on the desktop. In fact, you can't use this system without a phone if your browser isn't Google enough.
We are going to see sooooo many scams out there. No wonder Google is locking down third party Android apps outside of their control, getting a user to install "device verification.apk" will become super trivial after people have clicked through these popups a couple times.
That war was lost in the 2010s, around the same time as the vertical video war.
Phone is small computer
Sure, and the north korean Linux distro also runs on a computer. I still wouldn't touch it.
Is it just a matter of not trusting the OS? I'm trying to figure out why "smart phone" is the discriminator here.
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It is, just like a calculator is a small computer. It's not a personal computing device though, in the sense that the user can't develop and deploy their own software/tools on it.
Even if that were true, that has nothing to do with browsing the web on it
No one should ever browse the web from an ESP32 either. Like seriously the dark patterns are bad enough from a desktop where you've actually got the screen real estate to see the whole page, have other sites open for comparison, have a keyboard to type your own notes, etc. Most browsing can simply wait, especially the adversarial-commercial type we're talking about here.
And also don't install apps? What's left then?
A device I have no choice in owning because modern employers assume you have sometime to install an authenticator app on. That's what it is for me. Also, sadly, it's an anchor for Signal. Otherwise I don't use the stupid thing.
well that just seems counterproductive and unreasonable but it's Friday so what do I care
-- sent from Chrome on Android
and it seems Google wants to support people like you!
That entire QR barcode thing is so that you can browse the web on your laptop/desktop, and _still_ rely on smart phone's attestation, no mobile browser needed.