I'm not sure how exactly that works in an ecosystem where vendors routinely add explicit backdoors, am I missing something
Yeah but platform could just shut down their channels & ban them from Play too.
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They aren't going to fight against those vendors, particularly since Google in many cases has the same kinds of interests as those vendors.
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They get a 30% cut from Play Store revenue. They don't want piracy, and they definitely don't want ad fraud breaking their ad revenue.
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They sell media like movies with DRM, and they cut a cut of from Netflix via Android billing API along with a bunch of similar services.
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Google bought Widevine, and WV on Android already has a TrustZone app. SafetyNet can become much more sophisticated, general purpose DRM.
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Need to remember that the goal isn't protecting users and it doesn't need to provide great security to crush piracy, ad fraud and so on.
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So lets say that only a subset of Android devices end up with a good implementation of this. Okay, make ad views on those cost more money.
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Only make 4k video available to those devices, etc.
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Once they have their remote attestation foothold, they can deploy stuff like sophisticated local anti-fraud machine learning tech.
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