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Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification

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756 points dagurp | 4 comments | 26 Jul 23 11:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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dang ◴[26 Jul 23 18:33 UTC] No.36882654[source]▶
I think these are the related threads to date—have I missed any?

Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36876301 - July 2023 (705 comments)

Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875226 - July 2023 (439 comments)

Google vs. the Open Web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875164 - July 2023 (161 comments)

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36862494 - July 2023 (413 comments)

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854114 - July 2023 (447 comments)

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817305 - July 2023 (437 comments)

Web Environment Integrity Explainer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36785516 - July 2023 (44 comments)

Google Chrome Proposal – Web Environment Integrity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36778999 - July 2023 (93 comments)

Web Environment Integrity – Google locking down on browsers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35864471 - May 2023 (1 comment)

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1. benatkin ◴[26 Jul 23 18:41 UTC] No.36882774[source]▶
I had one but it got flagged, ah well:

- “I don't know why this enrages folks so much.” Googler re Chrome anti-feature https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36868888

I think that just meant some users with sufficient karma flagged it, but I was a bit confused because for a while it didn't say "[flagged]" but didn't show up in the first several pages or continue to get upvotes. Is there a delay in saying "[flagged]"?

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2. dang ◴[26 Jul 23 19:08 UTC] No.36883224[source]▶
The [flagged] marker only shows up after flags exceed a certain threshold, but flags can affect a post's ranking before that.
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3. nubinetwork ◴[26 Jul 23 22:00 UTC] No.36885738[source]▶
It says dead now?
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4. dang ◴[26 Jul 23 22:10 UTC] No.36885876{3}[source]▶
No doubt it got flagged over the threshold. I've unkilled it now.