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1. lxgr+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-26 23:00:36
> The Flutter framework is growing in popularity.

Is that the one rendering [1] text and UI widgets into an HTML canvas element from JavaScript/Dart (completely coincidentally breaking ad blocking in the process)? What a beautiful piece of software.

> Apple already built and shipped this same feature last year,

Are you referring to Private Access Tokens (PAT)? These seem quite a bit more limited in what they do. WEI seems to specifically set out to roll back some of the blinding/anonymization aspects of PAT under the banner of debuggability/providing "feedback" to attesters.

[1] https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/renderers

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2. freedo+Nl2[view] [source] 2023-07-27 15:48:10
>>lxgr+(OP)
> Is that the one rendering [1] text and UI widgets into an HTML canvas element from JavaScript/Dart (completely coincidentally breaking ad blocking in the process)? What a beautiful piece of software.

Yep. I'm not saying Dart is a good thing - I've never used it and don't currently have plans too. All I'm saying is that it is NOT dead as GP asserted.

> Are you referring to Private Access Tokens (PAT)? These seem quite a bit more limited in what they do. WEI seems to specifically set out to roll back some of the blinding/anonymization aspects of PAT under the banner of debuggability/providing "feedback" to attesters.

Yes. PATs don't provide as much information about the attestation to the website, but they do provide the critical part which is "is this person using a blessed client." That's plenty for a website to block people on.

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