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How would this block ad-blocking?

• raxxorraxor 3y ago
  Google could stop certifying configurations with an ad-blocker. Of course they are the ones that want to be established as infrastructure to certify your client being "genuine" or not.
• thefurdrake 3y ago
  Websites could choose to deny access to clients that attest to having adblocking addons installed.
  • meragrin_ 3y ago
    Point me to anything which would give websites access to that information via WEI. There is nothing. I have seen nothing except FUD. Aside from that, this only attests for the device. Ad-blockers can be external. This does nothing for external ad-blockers. Explicit non-goals for WEI: "Enforce or interfere with browser functionality, including plugins and extensions." https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md#non-goals https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...
    • thefurdrake 3y ago
      Oh. Hmm. That link needs to be passed around a little bit more. Whoops.
    • roywiggins 3y ago
      I guess I'm not seeing any technical barriers there to an attester providing a service that only attests to browsers that don't have adblockers installed.
    • daurentius523 3y ago
      This will be hard as: The attester verdict is an abstract concept that refers to the response from attester. It reports how much an attester trusts the web environment the user agent is executing in. The web environment is defined as TODO [sic] So essentially google has carte blanche for information from your browser. And they are prototyping that into browser - so forgive me but I'm concerned even more.