Some people are being played like a gosh dang fiddle.

Y'all are so pavlovian that you see Zuck/Meta and instantly rage.

The alternative to OS based verification isn't no verification. It's cloud-based verification

The cloud verifiers have all the interest in the world to making you hate the idea that this problem could be solved at the OS level without any third party involvement

Arguments for the lesser of two evils are just wrappers for slippery slope logic. The actual alternative is to pass air tight privacy laws that restrain the growing power of control systems.

Exactly. And the funniest part is that when Steam implemented cloud-based verification for UK compliance, many people on HN suggested that the correct approach is to verify on hardware/OS level.