iOS 16 Will Let iPhone Users Bypass CAPTCHAs in Supported Apps and Websites

[J InTech82]

I recall watching a video saying that Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, and JRK Jr are still alive.

They are all hanging out with 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., John Lennon, and Elvis in Brazil.

 

[svish]

This is excellent news. Goodbye CAPTCHA!!

 

[psac]

But what if it's a robot in a coffee shot that is using the phone? (I actually like that commercial. )

 

[kilimanjaro]

I'm tired of stop lights, motorcycles, boats and bridges.
I could absolutely kiss whoever is behind this.

 

[0924487]

I usually just use the accessibility token feature. This would not go well with captcha providers because they make money by having free human tagging of photos for machine learning.

 

[DStack4282]

This will be very useful - can't wait for iOS16.

 

[FindingAvalon]

The devil is in the details, which we don't know yet.

This could very well be a government mandated NSA backdoor protected by a national security letter. That way the NSA or other gov TLA orgs have direct evidence of what sites you are signing into and can turn on direct tracking in the browser. Tell me we've not heard of more outlandish things from NSA, FBI, CIA leakers.

Sounds like your tinfoil hat is on way too tight.

 

[John.B]

I guess that means all of the ML models have been sufficiently trained to identify traffic lights.

 

[HorstBockman]

Never understood why captchas are so stupid on iOS and iPadOS in the first place.

 

[Mimiron]

What a great feature, now hide all the annoying cookie popups and I'll be happy

 

[Radeon85]

Good, captchas are a gigantic pain in the ass that should be made illegal. Buggy, annoying, slow and if it's the text ones horrific to read, may as well be written in hieroglyphics.

 

[axcess99]

So it’s the same as how google recaptcha will use a simple checkbox instead of image picking if you are signed into google (in good standing etc).

Convenient and good to have, but nothing magical.

 

[0924487]

I use the "Hush" Safari extension. You set it up once to reject cookies and most of the time you will not have to fill in anything. I could not live without now!

Why not just use AdGuard or Ublock Origin?

 

[icymountain]

Why not just use AdGuard or Ublock Origin?

I use them too, but they serve a different purpose. Hush is automating the reply to the cookie management popups.

 

[polyphenol]

Real problem is, those people would stop sending us spam if it didn’t work for them.

I used to think that - and it might once have been true.

But it could well be that there are so many who have heard of spam, seen tools for generating spam, and are desperate to make money (or whatever), that they will at least try using spamming techniques even if they never work.

If not one single spam attempt worked for years, you'd still see people attempting to exploit spam and similar.

 

[polyphenol]

I use them too, but they serve a different purpose. Hush is automating the reply to the cookie management popups.

Decided to give it a go. Thanks.

There's a kind of hush
All over the world tonight my Safari

 

[nt5672]

Sounds like your tinfoil hat is on way too tight.

Or you've lost yours along the way. Do you by any chance watch any media not controlled by the government?

 

[FindingAvalon]

Or you've lost yours along the way. Do you by any chance watch any media not controlled by the government?

Thanks for totally confirming my point.

 

[mainmac]

Until devices are started to be used for spam

It's tied to your iCloud account, that presumes bots willl be able to make endless random iCloud accounts and these 'new' accounts won't be detectable by Apple. Tying to iCloud removes anonymnity, it just doesn't pass the identity on to the website.

 

[FindingAvalon]

It's tied to your iCloud account, that presumes bots willl be able to make endless random iCloud accounts and these 'new' accounts won't be detectable by Apple. Tying to iCloud removes anonymnity, it just doesn't pass the identity on to the website.

iCloud accounts are tied to devices.

 

[jav6454]

It's tied to your iCloud account, that presumes bots willl be able to make endless random iCloud accounts and these 'new' accounts won't be detectable by Apple. Tying to iCloud removes anonymnity, it just doesn't pass the identity on to the website.

There is always a way.

 

[FindingAvalon]

There is always a way.

What are they going to do, buy thousands of iPhones so they can make make thousands of accounts?

 

[jav6454]

What are they going to do, buy thousands of iPhones so they can make make thousands of accounts?

I wouldn't put it past them to do so.

 

[maternidad]

This is a little bizarre for me… isn’t captcha supposed to avoid the repeat submission of forms via automatic means?

Theoretically tying a captcha to faceID would allow someone to pay people a ludicrously small fee to just stand there for hours letting faceID pick their faces up so the bot can keep sending fraudolent requests

There’s already services that offer captcha resolution by literally having a room full of people clicking them for you, this would make that even more trivial unless I’m missing something

This is not the feature at all; there’s no biometric involvement.

 

[FindingAvalon]

I wouldn't put it past them to do so.

The costs would be prohibitive