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Re:Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler by zx8080 on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:34PM (#48088851)
> You're not necessarily being surveiled just because you're forced to authenticate yourself.

Oh hell you do! Google profit comes from ADS! It's for their profit to surveil and track and deanonymize TO SELL ADS.

Re:Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler by whattheheckheck on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:15AM (#48091279)
Having thought about ads, what is the ideal feedback info channel loop from manufacturers to consumers? How best to distribute the information of who can manufacture what at what cost/price and what does it do and when is it appropriate for consumers to receive or pull info from where? And if it ends up being a monopoly of 1 centralized system how do you allow for a competitor to break through without ads?
Re:Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler by MSFT_Edging on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:53AM (#48093830)
Ads don't need to collect user information and form profiles. I don't understand why we must capitulate to more and more invasive advertising.

I don't know about you but I feel humiliated being forced to look at ads all day.

Re:Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler by Y_Y on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:02AM (#48095938)
Catalogues
Re:Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler by lxgr on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:48AM (#48093784)
A counterexample is not a valid refutation of the general point. It can be both true that Google will deanonymize you, given the chance, and that anonymous attestation is possible.