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1. london+P6[view] [source] 2023-07-26 12:44:45
>>topshe+(OP)
One of the proposals for WEI is to make it probabilistically fail.

Ie. on a given device, for 10% of websites, WEI pretends to be unsupported.

That means websites can't deny service where WEI is unsupported. Yet it still allows statistical analysis across bulk user accounts.

If WEI was implemented like this, I would support it as being good for the web ecosystem.

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2. pimter+Be[view] [source] 2023-07-26 13:20:29
>>london+P6
That's currently just an idea in the 'Open questions' section of the spec, but there is already pushback against it from others closely involved in the spec & discussion around this (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...) and notably the attestation feature Google already shipped on Android for native apps in the same situation does _not_ do this.
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