Similar feature is already in production Safari, alas: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-att...

That's not really surprising. Limited attestation of device state has been a thing for a long time and it's why Chrome is used at so many companies.

What sort of regulation do we imagine a government putting into place to stop this? If anything, governments tend to lean in favor of identification and verification systems because they make corporate commerce run more smoothly.

It's not hard to imagine legislation around a user right to ownership of their device. For example, it could be made illegal for a website to attest that a user is not running specific software.

Legislation around device ownership rights are already present, especially in the EU.

Or we could show Chrome users what the future will look like for alternative browsers - by blocking Chrome now.

OK? That has nothing to do with what the parent said, which is that the issue tracker should be flooded.