• Sparking
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, I just don’t get the point of what Google is doing with all of this. The while point is to require attestation because than you know people are viewing ads. So websites can either “trust” certs issued by Firefox, or not and lose out on ad revenue. I guess Google absence doesn’t have to trust firefoz attestation, but then it is going to payout less and people will seek other providers.

      SSL certs provide trust because you ultimately trust the issuing authority, which is supposedly garunteednby world governments. Their are known corrupt actors issuing certs, but ultimately you can be pretty sure that the SSL cert matches the domain you are on, and that it was requested by the owner of that domain. But you can still choose to not visit that domain if you don’t trust it. There are a lot of services that will block its already, so I don’t really get what the point of attestation is.