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Re:Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents sto... by deckar01 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:47AM (#48827647)
It’s not that dystopian if you are given the choice to trade your attestation for more valuable service. We have been paying for the web by letting advertisers correlate our behaviors together for a couple decades now.
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Re:Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents sto... by coldbrewed on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @01:10AM (#48827778)
The concern is that attestation turns into another mechanism to monitor and control people; see how age verification turns into surveillance.
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