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As a Linux user this has got me very worried. Chromium has so much market share that this change will certainly go through, and I feel like Safari won't care as it benefits them and their ecosystem to have device checks. I feel like Firefox and non standard OSes will almost certainly be blocked on a large range of websites with little impact on total users, not to mention completely blocking ad block and anti-tracking clients.
I think eventually regulators in the US will file an antitrust lawsuit and break chromium off of Google if this actually happens, but until then Fediverse/FOSS and personal websites are going to be the only places untouched by this.
I don't think our politicians will do anything but protect big business, personally.
I just hope that google won't try to lobby for this API like disney does for copyright changes
They won't need too. Chrome is the standard.
Apparently Apple already rolled it out in a previous update, they just didn't call any attention to it.