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keel-controltoday at 8:04 PM1 replyview on HN

The same people who would petition against ZKP Internet IDs complaining about the unregulated internet.

You can't have your cake and eat it too...


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spicyjpegtoday at 8:29 PM

ZKPs (as well as C2PA and similar user attestation systems) are quite literally a DRM scheme for the web, fraught with all the usual control and accessibility issues while still being relatively easy to circumvent by a sufficiently motivated and funded actor. Given the huge number of shady companies that run "phone farms" for purposes ranging from social media spam to Spotify royalty farming, I doubt they would even put a dent on this kind of automated abuse. They would however be very effective at locking every Linux and GrapheneOS user out of the internet.