> Going out on a limb here, I could imagine a solution where e.g. Private Relay users had egress from a special set of IPs that indicate to service providers th

> Going out on a limb here, I could imagine a solution where e.g. Private Relay users had egress from a special set of IPs that indicate to service providers that the originating user had indeed been identified/validated by Apple as authentic. It's not that crazy if you think about it. Apple's user base is a juicy target demographic. Apple's "privacy focused" approach is reducing the insights of every other tech company. If they can get it to the point where the other big tech companies have nothing to distinguish legitimate users from bad actors they can make a huge identity and reputation play. I doubt it would be private IPs or anything though. I think it's more likely that Apple assigns some type of trust/relationship score to each user based on Apple's view of them and then let's users opt in to some type of system where Apple vouches for them. Ex: I ask Apple for a short-lived token to attest to facebook.com or microsoft.com that I'm not a bad actor. Apple's userbase would eat that up because they already think they're better than everyone else and now they'll be "rewarded" for that by getting a premium experience online. That would also position Apple as the only company that could do super targeted advertising like Facebook does now.