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Google Chrome amounts to 63,55% of global browser market share right now.
Call me when Safari weighs in with their 20% share. That's a big enough group to actually kill this effort outright.
Let's hope Apple puts their "privacy first" money where their mouth is.
Sadly I do however think the ability to further lock down and control what uses can see and access might be just as tempting for them...
Apple "privacy first" policy is just the corporate image they want to sell, if they can get away with it without being questioned by the public, they will.
Apple already has something similar in place (https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/).
And 90% of them complain about privacy invasions by big tech or lack of anonymity