Google's new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote attestation scheme

According to EFF Deeplinks, Google is testing a new tool called reCAPTCHA Mobile Verification that lets companies block people running independent, de-Googled versions of Android, such as CalyxOS, PureOS, and GrapheneOS. These stripped-down systems are popular with users trying to limit tracking and ads. EFF frames the move as remote attestation, a way to police which software is allowed to connect, and argues it undercuts the open, interoperable web that Google itself was built on. The advocacy group notes Google recently lost three federal antitrust cases, including one over paying Apple more than twenty billion dollars a year to stay out of search.

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