Re:Client-side content encryption
by anon767 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:30AM
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I think that would have been possible without google's help too. Could someone not just send the content encrypted to the client and after signing in sending the corresponding key to decrypt it? Like by using the relatively new Web Crypto API?
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Possible? Sure. Widespread? Unlikely.
I am not looking forward to having bandwidth wasted on this crap.
To be clear I'm a big fan of use of the WebCrypto API in general.
As a small rant I can't stand Amp as a whole, and haven't been using Google services for a few years. YouTube being the begrudged exception; and there I use it 95% in incognito, with frequent cookie flushes outside of incognito. They're capable of tying the shadow profiles together but I'm expecting them not to.
Re:Client-side content encryption
by SiempreViernes on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:04AM
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Sure, but mostly people settle for just not sending the gated content in the first place. The reason for sending people data they can't use is somewhat unclear...