Really curious about how they'll try this shit in the EU. That'll be fun.
I don't understand how this will make ad blockers unusable. This new API might tell the site the user is using an ad blocker, but that tech seems to exist already..?
Right now websites can only make an educated guess because the ads don't load, they don't know whether you're running a blocker or if you're human.
Combine a more reliable mechanism with the guise of making the web safer and it might be more widely adopted; sites might refuse to load entirely until the check passes. This might mandate having any extensions disabled that can interfere with the content loaded by the site, this goes beyond ad blockers - could also be accessibility or other UI related enhancements.
I am also very worried about the privacy implications of storing these tokens (as mentioned in the post).
Apple and Cloudflare already added something like this called Private Access Tokens https://developer.apple.com/news/
Why don’t they collaborate with them?
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