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Santosh83 ◴[] No.36862751[source]
Maybe I'm wrong but Web Attestation will also be a death knell for Linux devices (not Android/Chrome OS) as far as being able to use them as equal clients to use the Web goes. They're simply too diverse and 'hackable' as a plotform for remote attestation to work reliably and thus they'll be excluded altogether (except a few 'blessed' distros that will then become industry controlled, and not Linux in spirit anymore).
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onion2k ◴[] No.36863025[source]
I slightly suspect that the only platforms that will actually implement Web Attestation are the ones I'm trying to remove myself from, so I secretly[1] hope this is the catalyst I need to stop going on crappy social networks and video platforms.

I apparently don't have the will power to stop going on these sites so maybe stopping me loading content from the other side is exactly what I need.

[1] Not so secretly now I've mentioned it here I suppose.

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tomstockmail ◴[] No.36863057[source]
Banks.
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N19PEDL2 ◴[] No.36863207[source]
There's a lot of competition in the banking sector, so I don't think banks can afford to start telling customers that they need specific devices to access their online services.
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1. reaperducer ◴[] No.36863516{3}[source]
I don't think banks can afford to start telling customers that they need specific devices to access their online services.

They already make demands.

Two of the very large national banks I have accounts with restrict your access if you're not even using the right browser version. One puts a warning in every page. The other won't even let you log in.

To make the second one even worse, it requires a very specific version, not just > $version, so if i update my OS too quickly, it won't let me in.