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

This might be where the internet really gets forked, as it's been predicted over and over since the '90s.

On one side, we'll have a "clean", authority-sanctioned "corpweb", where everyone is ID'ed to the wazoo; on the other, a more casual "greynet" galaxy of porn and decentralized communities will likely emerge, once all tinkerers get pushed out of corpnet. It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams.

But the question is, who and what is going to be allowed to connect to the corpweb.

Running an adblocker? Sorry. Using a non-Chromium based browser? Nuh-uh. Running an old machine with no TPM? Sucks to be you. Running a Linux distribution? Tough luck.

Sure, you can have fun with your free decentralized web. But at the end of the day even tinkerers have to log into their gov website to pay their taxes.

You can compartmentalize such activities to a dedicated device, much like one may need a Windows device for certain software or an Android device for features in banking apps that aren't available on the website.

If it comes to this then desktop Linux will go from viable Windows alternative to obscure hobby OS overnight. The inconvenience factor of having your life split between two devices is just too high.

This is the same way that SafetyNet killed alternative ROMs on Android.