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>>topshe+(OP)
As someone who is a somewhat new to web technologies, can someone really explain why this is bad? I saw the techical discussions in the PRs made to the WEI repo but it was all super technical that I was not able to understand the arguments made for and against it.

>>anshum+Qc
WEI turns non-compliant browsers into second-class citizens. You’re perfectly free to use whatever compliant browser engine and OS combo you like today – but in a world with WEI, you’ll have to use Approved Chrome on an Approved OS on Approved Hardware with Approved Signing Keys, or you won’t be able to sign into your bank.

>>mplewi+Ee
isn't this good? banks can raise security while we can still use any browser to check hackers news! or this 3 cows story?

>>netdur+kh
>> isn't this good? banks can raise security while we can still use any browser to check hackers news!

Are you okay with buying a new computer running the operating system and browser someone else wants to access your bank's web site?

You can still use you current computer and bowser to access HN.

>>thesup+8j
Like many others in this thread you stack so many assumptions on top of each other. Why? I don't think that helps.

Will this person's bank implement WEI in such a way that none of this person's devices (computer, phone) are supported and will this person not be willing or able to switch banks, only then buying a new computer comes into view. Without knowing anything about this person, assuming average, the chances for this must be low or the bank will have no happy customers left.

I fully agree with the underlying worries you and others in this thread have, but to extrapolate that without any nuance into a world where we all become privacy-less, ad consuming, eye tracked zombies on newly bought computers is not helping the case (in my view).

>>icoder+FB
It's called looking ahead to the straightforward results of the obvious power dynamic, to know what it will lead to when that dynamic gets entrenched enough to be taken for granted.

It's like how all these "free" websites coasted along for years being quite user friendly, but have recently switched to extraction mode. Anybody who thought about the incentives knew what was coming down the line eventually.