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The solution would be not to visit those sites that require this, right?
Hard when those sites are things like your bank, your government official stuff pages, etc.
This attestation stuff is a "not such a bad idea in its basic principle" thing that will actually absolutely get abused everywhere in every way including being used to kill off browser competitors, enhance monopoly positions, etc.
It needs to be stopped now.
what good does it do? why should the server see or care about anything on this side? spit out the damn content
what worries me is that 'web environment integrity' is the perfect bullshit smarmy business school name for it