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gruez on April 3, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can i...

>Chromium is open source. If there was some super secret handshake, anyone could copy that code to curl-impersonate. And if it's only in closed-source Chrome, someone will disassemble it and copy it over anyway.

Not if the "super secret handshake" is based on hardware-backed attestation.

do_not_redeem on April 3, 2025 [–]

True, but beside the point.

GP claims the API can detect the official chrome browser, and the official chrome browser runs fine without attestation.

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