Turns out that Web Environment Integrity proposal everybody is getting angry about (imo very legitimately) was effectively already shipped by Apple in Safari last year: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/
That means if Chromium ships it too, we could quickly move to 90%+ of browser traffic being attested. Not good!
#Google is still trying to #kill the #OpenWeb.
I've collected the previous thread on the topic and added some updates, as I have become aware of them.
This includes an analysis of #Apple and their Private Access Token proposal, which has been compared to WEI (quick TL;DR: it's very different).
https://interpeer.io/blog/2023/07/google-vs-the-open-web/
This may also be of interest to @EU_Commission @EDPS @ombudsman regarding legality of such an approach within the EU.
@edri may care how this is a vector for abusing PII.
For anyone interested in whether #threads is more piggy than others when it comes to data comsuption, here's a more details analysis of #Threads, #Mastodon, #BlueSky, and many more social networks data gathering efforts:
https://tnl.net/2023/07/06/data-capture-in-the-new-social-media-age/
Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires
https://doctorow.medium.com/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.