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Wow, that doesn't sound like a terrible idea! Which is honestly surprising in this area where it feels like privacy, anonymity and human verification are incom
by tomxor 3y ago
Wow, that doesn't sound like a terrible idea!
Which is honestly surprising in this area where it feels like privacy, anonymity and human verification are incompatible with each other.
I am trying to minimise my time wasted by websites, which is hard to balance with privacy, one other one is the repetitive consent forms (if you don't retain cookies, it's a never ending process). I think consent forms and human verification are the 2 biggest human time wasters.
- jeroenhd 3y ago> Which is honestly surprising in this area where it feels like privacy, anonymity and human verification are incompatible with each other. The thing is, it still allows for some correlation between attestation provider and the websites themselves, potentially exposing part of your browsing history to these companies based on how many tokens you use and what websites consume them. That doesn't matter much for Cloudflare's implementation (now Cloudflare knows when you visit Cloudflare, oh no!) but with Apple's attestation provider the risks increase. The smaller the attestation provider gets or the fewer parties trust that particular attestation provider, the higher the risk becomes. It's better for your privacy than the current norm (de-anonimisation through fingerprinting while you fill out a CAPTCHA) but it's still not great. It also allows for attestation providers (and their algorithms) to arbitrarily deny you access to the web if other websites decide to start using them. Privacy in exchange for power, I'm not so sure about that. I imagine for someone suffering from ADHD the small risk that Cloudflare decides to screw you in particular is worth the massive improvement in browsing experience, but everyone will have to determine the pros and cons for themselves.