"Sorry, your device appears to be running Linux, please only use approved Apple or Windows devices to log in, with our required surveillance system pro installed. Thanks."
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Unfair. Google, Amazon and Facebook devices will also be allowed.
Companies can already do that
Google already does that with Android and SafetyNet
Yeah, but so far you can just spoof your user agent. Not sure how easy cracking private access tokens will be. I assume they'll be pretty proactive about keeping it locked down.
Just use a vm
That's easily detectable. Try beating Google Safety Net that way.
Expect corporations to be lazy. Just look at how every website handles cookies now. They could do it smartly, limit their cookie exposure, or only send the messages to IPs in the EU. But they just put an "accept all cookies or get out" OK box on your screen. And that's what they're going to do once attestation gets popular.
Sites will just require an attestation token and likely only accept ones from Safari and Chromium browsers since those are the ones pushing it. That will effectively make Firefox, Opera and other browsers incompatible with those websites. And once it catches on or becomes law somewhere, it'll be the entire internet. It's an extremely anticompetitive measure and it's internet-wide DRM. Fuck. that.
But they just put an "accept all cookies or get out" OK box on your screen.
Which doesn’t comply with GDPR
Which only affects companies doing business in the EU. Granted, that's most of the big players.
Very grateful for the EU to unfuck most of the world from a lot of American regulatory capture.
If a website doesn't want me to see their shit, then I guess i won't see their shit. I already have some sites that don't work because of my aggressive use of lists on my pihole, in addition to the usual browser plugins. If a site doesn't work now, I just move on. I don't give a shit about any site enough to put up with this type of bullshit.
If a website doesn't want me to see their shit, then I guess i won't see their shit
That's how I react to Twitter and Facebook requiring login to even view most things.
Whatever you're showing isn't important enough to be worth me making an account.
What if it's your bank's website? Or email provider? Or literally anything else you actually have to choose and can't pick? "It's okay because I don't think it affects me / I can ignore it" is always a bad reason to allow a bad thing happen.
We're not allowing it. We don't have a choice.
Well you can protest, inform others, switch browsers, make your family switch...
It's not easy and might not accomplish much but at least you're trying.
We won't be allowed to switch browsers any more. That's the whole problem.
We need to fight against this and stop this from happening before it's too late.
Fight how?