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hulitu
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A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a user...
> A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' local network
A proposal to treat webbrowsers as malware ? Why would a webbrowser connect to a socket/internet ?
loumf
4 months ago
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The proposal is directed at the websites in the browser (using JS, embedded images or whatever), not the code that implements the browser.
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A proposal to treat webbrowsers as malware ? Why would a webbrowser connect to a socket/internet ?