Comment by echelon

I'm not going to mince words - what you're saying is dangerous and harmful.

> to be clear can not track you in any way

All they have to do is encode enough entropy for a database unique identifier. Systems like this have been used to do it for audio:

https://github.com/swesterfeld/audiowmark

SynthID payloads work the same way, and the paper discusses encoding a "user identifier":

https://arxiv.org/html/2510.09263v1#S5

All you need to do is encode a database identifier, GeoIP, or other identifying information, and you've violated a person's privacy without their knowledge or consent.

Once these systems become popular, the intelligence agencies will "suggest" that Google adds it to their phone cameras. It will start seeping into everything.

The "slippery slope" is not a fallacy. We're on the verge of having device attestation and identity verification to use the internet. This is so beyond fucked.

Stop defending this.

Saying this is okay is EVIL.