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.
This is detailed at https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652
hacker news when reading that google is doing the same thing for the rest of the userbase: "hello, human resources?"
(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.
I think it has also blessed Amazon's WAF
Cloudflare has a turnstile product that i'm sure uses this apple IDS token
Mobile Safari generally is not shown Cloudflare captchas or similar because of Apple-Cloudflare cooperation. it's not complicated.
Apple calls it a "Personal Access Token" but that makes it sound more like a DRM scheme - which it sort of is, it is managing your right to a free-as-in-beer access scheme - than a broad web integrity environment solution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Prince#:~:text=In%2020...
They're literally a government surveillance program larping as a private company, many such cases.
It'll just be more clunky because you have to install their app.
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.