this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2024
33 points (92.3% liked)

Firefox

17942 readers
3 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
33
Why doesn't Firefox implement Private State Tokens? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

As far as my understanding go, Private State Tokens is supposed to be a huge improvement over cookies in terms of security and privacy, which make ask about the reason they are not implemented on Firefox.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tl;dr why have they taken a stance against it?

[–] CountVon 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tl;Dr the protocol requires there to be trusted token providers that issue the tokens. Who do you suppose are the trusted providers in the Google and Apple implementations? Google and Apple respectively, of course. Maybe eventually there would be some other large incumbents that these implementers choose to bless with token granting right. By its nature the protocol centralizes power on the web, which would disadvantage startups and smaller players.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, the RCS problem. Thanks for the clarification!