Posts by gsderp@packmates.org
 (DIR) Post #AXsm6I6jWpH1nW5XCS by gsderp@packmates.org
       2023-07-19T14:03:47Z
       
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       This is a credible proposal for DRM for websites in general. It would enable unbeatable adblock-blocking. It would prevent user customization for not just convenience but also accessibility.I do not say this lightly: Enabling the forfeiture of control over the browsing experience is a fundamentally evil idea that must be rejected now, as it has been in the past, and we must remain vigilant against its reemergence in the future.https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
       
 (DIR) Post #AXtJQWHRqCBi26LyTI by gsderp@packmates.org
       2023-07-20T16:23:17Z
       
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       @digifox As a framework it doesn’t and can’t do anything to mitigate against sites deciding to trust only attesters that require immoral (anti-user freedom) criteria as part of their “baseline”.The “holdback” mitigation is incapable of delivering the stated goals of making sure this isn’t usable for discrimination. The framework is prima facie immoral if the holdback percentage isn’t high enough to to make this useless for every case except measuring ad fraud. However, If holdback isn’t stable, even if the holdback percentage is high, sites can still discriminate against users that never pass it. If the set of held-back destinations is stable the set of held-back destinations becomes a useful and durable fingerprint. Furthermore there’s the relatively intractable problem of destinations colluding to share trust signals and enabling discrimination based on that.There is no open web if an attestation framework gains critical mass, so such a framework must not be allowed to exist.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXvB9BV3RFgBLKrPvM by gsderp@packmates.org
       2023-07-19T21:04:03Z
       
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       @noxypaws DOH/DOT is dual-use, attestation is not. DOH/DOT is an unequivocal good when it enforces the free choice/consent of a device user-owner to control what resolver is used, and to enforce privacy in that use, (against/over the interests of a network-path interloper,) which is essential for further privacy improvements like ECH to be meaningful. In contrast, the fundamental purpose of attestation is to subvert a device owner-user’s ability to enforce their consent and exercise meaningful control over the what their device does, which is indefensibly evil.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXvB9Cwk3nQ9pUp2ie by gsderp@packmates.org
       2023-07-19T21:32:08Z
       
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       @noxypaws The problem with the TV falls squarely under the umbrella of eroded owner-user rights. (Well, at the edge where they just flat out don’t exist any more.) DOH/DOT being available for use by your browser doesn’t enable a shit TV to do anything it couldn’t already have done. At most, DOH/DOT being an off-the-shelf standard means a substantial reduction in the work they would need to do to implement their own secured host resolution.
       
 (DIR) Post #AatupyhMmWVrw1ciGG by gsderp@packmates.org
       2023-10-18T13:12:02Z
       
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       @hakirsch @qdot We get it, you’re seriously furry to the point of using a different word for it with its own symbols and stuff. (This is a :therian: self-callout.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AcCyBZ5NHUZ8ReAUHQ by gsderp@packmates.org
       2023-11-26T19:31:39Z
       
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       @qdot When I first saw this I thought it said “For Unsuccessfully”
       
 (DIR) Post #Adg39QTE23Cvm0AtTk by gsderp@packmates.org
       2024-01-08T11:48:51Z
       
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       I don’t know who made this, but I approve of this workflow.