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>>topshe+(OP)
There are many arguments against this but not many brought the implications for search engines.

If websites implement this, it will effectively make building a web search engine impossible for new entrants. The current players can whitelist/attest their own clients while categorizing every other scraping clients as bots.

If not for other reasons, I can't see how Google a search company can be allowed to push something that can kill competition using its market dominance in other areas like browsers.

>>devsda+Iu
How would this work against scrapers that are based on driven anpproved browser instances, eg. something like Selenium?

>>ivanst+F71
The browser instance knows it is being driven by an automation agent. If you so wanted, you can actually comment out the code that does that in the browser's code but since this new setup will enable the page to check if you compiled your own browser, they'll be able to incorporate the "isUnderAutomation" flag under the attestation data and that's sealed because you can't build your own browser and have it attest.