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I'm curious, what do you think it does?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity

The use it to validate if the browser you are using is one of their signed binaries.

Of course the original intention was to detect fraudulent ad clicks, but the reality will that you will be met by captchas every step of the way if you dare to compile your own binary.



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