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Re:Chase Bank claims Linux on ARM (Asahi Linux) is “incompat... by NoRelToEmber on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:56PM (#36475210)
It may seem minor, but unless these things are fought, they will slowly creep until anything that's not a corporate-approved computer/OS/browser is effectively quarantined from the internet. It will make adoption of free software even harder.
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Re:Chase Bank claims Linux on ARM (Asahi Linux) is “incompat... by userbinator on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:01PM (#36475249)
Agreed 100%. User-agent discrimination should be illegal. People always use the "security" excuse against it, but if changing your UA header is enough to get past the checks, it's clearly in the realm of security theater.

It will make adoption of free software even harder.

Depends what you mean by "free software", but I assume you're referring to independent/competing implementations and not "software developed corporate interests, who have only decided to make the source public" (like Big Browser.) Chrom[e/ium], and browsers based on it, are "free" after all.

That said, remote attestation is the real enemy of your freedom and privacy.

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