Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
Summary
The article critiques Google's Google Cloud Fraud Defense as a repackaged Web Environment Integrity approach, focusing on device attestation and a QR-based human verification flow. It highlights privacy and tracking concerns, potential bypass methods, and compares it to privacy-preserving alternatives, arguing the open web could be harmed by centralized hardware attestations. It concludes that Fraud Defense may fail to stop bots while enabling granular device attribution and surveillance across the web.