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Don't. · Issue #28 · RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Can someone explain what this does using only two words?

google extortion

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surveillance capitalism

See also: Web Environment Integrity API Proposal | Hacker News

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and apparently being prototyped in Chromium.

There's good reason for anger here (though I'm not sure yelling at people on GitHub is necessarily the best outlet). This proposal amounts to attestation on the web, limiting access to features or entire sites based on whether the client is approved by a trusted issuer. In practice, that will mean Apple, Microsoft & Google.