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>>topshe+(OP)
There’s a saying, on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog.

WEI is part of a broader movement to make this false - more generally to make an internet where we know you are a human staring at a screen

It turns out having dogs (or more commonly programs and scripts) on the internet is not profitable and not good for business, so corporations want to take dogs off their websites by finding clever ways to attest that a real human with eyeballs is clicking with hands and staring at ads.

Support dog rights. Don’t allow for a WEI-dominated web.

>>helen_+Nt
The whole narrative about WEI "proving" you're a human is completely false (and I'd argue a ruse). It only proves you're using a sanctioned OS and browser binary. It does nothing to stop robots being wired-up to devices w/ emulated inputs.

In fact, WEI will make it easier to use a robot w/ a sanctioned software stack since, hey, it's a "human" per WEI.

>>EvanAn+lq1
WEI proposal leaves open the functionality of the attester, so it’s neither correct to say this will prove requests are humans nor that it simply proves a sanctioned OS/browser.

The attester will attest whatever they want. They can evolve to match the further degradation of user freedoms.