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

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596 points pimterry | 1 comments | 25 Jul 23 14:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | source
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gooob ◴[25 Jul 23 14:31 UTC] No.36862804[source]▶
what even is the reasoning they have for proposing and implementing this?
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ezfe ◴[25 Jul 23 14:37 UTC] No.36862910[source]▶
Allow Apple devices to browse the web with fewer captcha interruptions, etc. and be more trusted as non-bot devices.
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FabHK ◴[25 Jul 23 15:22 UTC] No.36863657[source]▶
> Allow Apple devices to browse the web with fewer captcha interruptions

In particular, while using a VPN or Tor. So in one sense it’s even a pro-privacy move, insofar as it allows to distinguish a human user on a legit device using a VPN from a bot using a VPN (upon which the server can present a captcha or denial to the latter, but not the former, making it less onerous for average users to use a VPN).

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1. freedomben ◴[25 Jul 23 15:58 UTC] No.36864276[source]▶
It's only a pro-privacy move if you completely trust Apple (the mandatory 3rd party approver) both now and in the future to be pro-privacy. The minute their growth slows and the shareholders demand changes, the pro-privacy can go out the window, and they've got the advertisers wet dream ready and waiting, reserved exclusively for them. Corporations are profit-seeking entities by design, and leadership who doesn't act in the best interest of the shareholders (i.e. profit seekers) will be removed and replaced by leadership who does.