Oops Google Did It Again

&gt; Computer scientists always consider the worst case scenario because it allows us to edge against the risk—or, well, certainty—that something will go wrong.<p>&gt; Why are people complaining about WEI and not PATs then?<p>&gt; Well, Google is simultaneously the owner of the most popular web browser (Chrome) and the most popular mobile operating system (Android) on top of which Chrome runs. WEI is guaranteed to be a recipe for anti-competitive practices.<p>I don&#x27;t follow. How is any of this exclusively harmful when WEI does it? Is Apple not also in a position to use PATs for anti-competitive purposes?

This would be, de facto, DRM for whole browsers. It would have all the advantages (to incumbents) of DRM. And for users, all the disadvantages of DRM.<p>If you think the John Deer tractor maintenance thing is terrible and disgusting ...

The scary part isn’t what happens with attestation on todays web, it’s what kind of web gets built tomorrow when the vast majority of users support attestation.<p>The author of WEI acknowledges this risk but the only mitigation is a suggestion that maybe browsers can occasionally hold off on attesting - basically, letting market share of attestation hold just shy of 100% in hopes that it doesn’t dominate the web.<p>I’m sure the future google engineer who removes this restriction and saves 10% of chrome sessions from captchas will also get a promotion.

&gt; is an example of what happens when you don’t <i>consider the worst case scenario</i>.<p>This sentence pretty much summarise everything that is wrong with Tech or Silicon Valley in the past 15+ years.

I wonder if web crawlers that aren’t Google will be able to produce valid tokens.