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didntcheck on July 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM...

And in practice it will eventually mean being unable to do online banking if you're on Linux. My Android phone with a custom ROM doesn't pass even a basic SafetyNet check, and this means I essentially cannot use mobile banking. For now, using a browser on my phone is a "workaround", but this proposal could change that

xvector on July 25, 2023 [–]

And yet millions of users benefit from SafetyNet every day. Just because something constrains openness does not make it inherently bad.

account42 on July 25, 2023 | [–]

Millions of users are subjected to SaftetyNet. Your claim that this is to their benefit is unfounded.

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