The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.

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    Thanks for this. I skimmed the proposal doc itself and didn’t quite understand the concern people have with it – most of the concerns that came to my own mind are already listed as non-goals. The first few lines of this comment express a realistic danger that’s innate to what’s actually being proposed.

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      Being listed as a non-goal means nothing though. Who says it won’t become a goal later on?

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        Also, it’s listed as ‘non-goal’ not ‘anti-goal’. Meaning they aren’t complaining if it just so happens to achieve a ‘non-goal’, they’re just not explicitly targeting that (so they say).