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> WEI doesn't prevent you from participating in the web or needing to meet someone else's specification. You can even make an attestation service for your own browser.

As always, Google will do its best to ensure it PRACTICALLY does, while denying it at the same time by pointing out that "you can make your own Google".

> because the physical analog, fraud, is illegal,

I don't know about the US, but in Poland abusive and anticompetitive clauses are not enforceable. Lying about the device seems to be the digital equivalent.



>Lying about the device seems to be the digital equivalent

Not all lying is equal. If an ad network uses WEI to avoid lies made to defraud them their goal is not to be anticompetitive.


I can even agree here, however the question is - does this justify the entire mechanism when it's known it can be used for other purposes which are not as non-controversial as your examples.




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