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Re:Project Oak by Google by leoqa on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:32PM (#41252122)
From a service owner perspective, if I offer content and want to enforce strong identity from the user then this seems like a win. I may lose eyeballs but will gain higher confidence that my content is being consumed as intended.

I'm fine with more controls in place, a safer internet is clearly a social win that would reduce life alerting fraud, scams etc. If power users want to go to their peer-to-peer cesspool then go for it.

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Re:Project Oak by Google by AlotOfReading on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @11:33PM (#41252917)
How does enforcing strong attestation from the user result in a safer internet or reduce life alerting frauds and scams? It's not users injecting that onto pages, it's the ad networks that operators choose to use.
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Re:Project Oak by Google by nepthar on Thursday August 15, 2024 @12:35AM (#41253105)
A safer internet does not necessarily follow from having this system in place. I'd like to point out that this is an opinion that you have which I and others disagree with.

I also don't believe that content creators have any kind of legal or moral right to force the general public to "consume as intended". For instance, I've got a shelf in my office that's built with supports that are designed for plumbing. I have not consumed these pipes as intended.

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