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[–] thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They do indeed: https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/

From the article:

The focus here is primarily on removing captchas, and as such it's been integrated into Cloudflare (discussed here) and Fastly (here) as a mechanism for recognizing 'real' clients without needing other captcha mechanisms.

Fundamentally though, it's exactly the same concept: a way that web servers can demand your device prove it is a sufficiently 'legitimate' device before browsing the web.

[–] takeda@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

So basically boiling frog slowly.