Daniel Micay on Twitter: "It literally exists for the purpose of blocking users from modifying the web content or extracting it from there and viewing it in another app with modifications. Imagine if web sites themselves used attestation functionality to do this. I think they already have the APIs for it." / Twitter

twitter.com/BrendanEich/st I don't see how this isn't DRM, and it's not a good precedent. Web sites would love to use this kind of DRM to prevent users from blocking advertisements or other unwanted features exactly like Brave is doing, and Brave would be locked out by that too.

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@BrendanEich

Jul 25, 2019

Replying to @DanielMicay @justsee and @bcrypt

DRM is WideVine. OS-level antifraud is not "DRM" in any useful sense of the TLA. I think @EFF agrees, but anyway, your further "enforced viewing" words were inaccurate and misleading! You mean: we make Brave Ads viewers pass OS-tested antifraud that the appstores require. Yes.

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