reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification Is Bringing the Play Integrity API to Desktops
Cider9986
14 points
7 comments
May 15, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
CalRobert
Aside from the horrendous privacy implications, is there a possible argument that this is anti-competitive?
charcircuit
If Windows wasn't so far behind Apple and the rest of the industry in regards to integrity APIs this wouldn't be necessary. It's embarrassing for Microsoft that someone needs to use a separate, more secure device since their security is so bad.
rvz
I am going to assume that this also destroys millions of AI agents and bot scrapers this time which is why some “AI Engineers” were complaining about this recently. Well, this is how Google will kill all the scrapers on its search data.