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dantheclamman to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewed

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Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewed

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dantheclamman to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the `*.google.com` domains - tweeted about today [by Luca Casonato](https://twitter.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018), …

h/t @simon@simonwillison.net https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/112757810519145581

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    This is not new news lol

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