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And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is... interesting to say the least.

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WASM currently cannot check in what environment it is runned on. It is just like in the virtual machine, browser can lie to WASM program about the states of the surroundings.

This proposal is to disallow any browser versions not approved by Google. So the program loaded by the website is going to communicate with the browser, then OS, security chips in the device and Google's servers to generate cryptographic proof that you run "geniue" approved browser.