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by qbasic_forever 1212 days ago
It's going to be an extremely janky or very private website if they only allow you to use it when you have 1 of like a dozen supported and approved hardware TPMs to view it.
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The latest windows version requires a hardware tpm on a device in order to be installed. Every hardware vendor has therefore included a tpm on all their new machines. This was already standard on apple devices, and many android devices have one as well.
Sure but someone who wants to build a web scraper won't care, they could use their own homebrew TPM that does a no-op and claims a user pressed a button or was present when they actually were not there.

I doubt websites will go to the trouble to keep a list of approved TPMs. It's the SSL root certs nightmare all over again and even worse. No one is going to want to deal with managing a whole new giant list of devices, having fire drill updates to revoke compromised ones, etc.