Maybe a dumb question, but how is this suppose to work for iphone users? They wont have google play, and it seems like android/google play is required here? There is no way they would cut out such a huge chunk of the market.
hacker news when discovering that apple deployed WEI, for ages, with beloved IT company Cloudflare, affecting hundreds of millions of users: "aww, you're sweet"
hacker news when reading that google is doing the same thing for the rest of the userbase: "hello, human resources?"
I thought that cloudflare system worked on any hardware and the tokens are anonymous. Did that change at some point? If it didn't change, then yeah it should get a very different reaction!
(Edit: it looks like the new system is still private and still interlinked with the old system that lets you use any hardware? I think?)
Also I don't know how you could have missed the widespread criticism of apple and especially cloudflare on this site.
apple has blessed cloudflare WAF with backend access to the apple ID service tokens that they manage for things like iMessage authenticity
I think it has also blessed Amazon's WAF
Cloudflare has a turnstile product that i'm sure uses this apple IDS token
Mobile Safari generally is not shown Cloudflare captchas or similar because of Apple-Cloudflare cooperation. it's not complicated.
Apple calls it a "Personal Access Token" but that makes it sound more like a DRM scheme - which it sort of is, it is managing your right to a free-as-in-beer access scheme - than a broad web integrity environment solution
In 2008, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contacted Unspam Technologies, asking, "Do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is?" The DHS' email served as the impetus for Cloudflare, a technology company Prince co-founded with Holloway and fellow Harvard Business School graduate Michelle Zatlyn the following year.
The claim is that an iPad/iPhone will also work. Not that that makes it acceptable; if anything, it's worse, because if it were Google Play only it'd be more obvious how unacceptable it is, whereas catering to the duopoly makes it less obvious how much it excludes people and builds a reliance on proprietary systems.
One company can soon dictate who can enter the websites.
And only two commercial operating systems are viable in the world after this change.
Not nice.
I believe the latest versions of iOS just work from the browser, you only need to install the app for older versions of the OS.
I don't know what technology they're using, but when I scanned the QR code it launched (downloaded?) an iOS app of sorts with one tap, similar to the way Google tried Instant Apps a few years back. Didn't even need to double tap the power button like usual.
