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jfoutz ◴[] No.36882062[source]
This kinda seems like a fantastic way to implement micro payments. The site owner sets up a attestor that knows they’ve paid.

I hate Wei in general, but it really could open up control over bots and paid access.

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wbobeirne ◴[] No.36882168[source]
There is no reason that can't be done with existing web technology, WEI does not advance that use case in any meaningful way.
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jfoutz ◴[] No.36882384[source]
It provides a uniform service for ensuring a client has desired properties.

That’s kinda tricky to do well. Traffic for monitoring, you can do with a jwt, but like, enabling chunked transfer in python request lib is a problem you discover. An array of attestors could guarantee feature sets.

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1. doxick ◴[] No.36884634[source]
This will be great when both my partner and i use the same browser but different ... Different what exactly? Ah.. accounts!

"This allows them to detect the actual device"... As if that isn't a solved space already?