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Hopefully no one comes in here and tells me Firefox does shit like this as well… I just swapped back.
Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewed
Submitted 4 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/
Comments
SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 months ago
dan1101@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Firefox doesn’t have a huge number of pages like Google does. The problem is collusion between browser and websites run by the same company.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 months ago
This is not new news lol
xavier666@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Remember the rule of thumb -> if it’s not open-source, you are allowing the software to do whatever it wants to do.
No regulation, law, support group is going to help you. You are digging your own grave.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 months ago
I agree, but… This was in open source software. Chromium. Not just Google Chrome. github.com/…/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7…
redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
This is included in the chromium source code which is public
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
If it’s any software you didn’t write yourself or audit every line of…
For a typical Linux distro that’s tens of thousands of packages…
xavier666@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I am no expert on code-auditing. But I’m slightly at peace that there are 100s of experts looking at the code because it’s open-source. But i also understand mistakes can still happen. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s the best solution so far.