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Comment by soared

1 year ago

Yes, technical capability will ship in chrome https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/protections/pr...

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donmcronald  1 year ago

What do you think the odds are that someone will give you a state token attesting to you being 18+ and that the issuer won't keep a "paper trail" back to your identity so they can prove they did their due diligence?

I'll give you a hint. It's 0%.

The recurring theme in all these systems is that everything you do online can be tracked backed to your real world identity. What happens when all the major tech platforms require some kind of attestation to participate and publish information? Can you still criticize politicians and rich people after that?

At that point I'd rather just go to BestBuy and buy a "not a bot" card for $100 cash.

  • soared  1 year ago

    The insurance on what I linked is that the issuer cannot see who redeemed the token, so the issuer can’t link an individual to what sites they visited.

    • donmcronald  1 year ago

      > The publisher site makes a request to the issuer to redeem the trust tokens.

      They don't explain it very good because that makes it sound like they're asking the issuer to validate a token which implies the potential to correlate it to the user.

      That whole scheme seems pretty bad IMO. It looks like it boils down to sites sharing trust data which means huge platforms are going to become the arbiters of who's good vs bad. Even if the system works well and sharing trust info reduces bots and bad actors, it's going to have a negative effect on new market entrants because it's likely they'll have to buy trust data rather than having some kind of peering arrangement.

      It seems like big tech companies are hellbent on controlling every minute of our lives. It's disappointing.

giantg2  1 year ago

Not exactly. You would still need to reveal yourself to the issuer. It only hides you from the consumer.

  • jauntywundrkind  1 year ago

    And it potentially locks out smaller browsers who might want to get started but who aren't on the approved age verification trust anchor list.