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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months 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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

hangout_services/thunk.js

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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), …

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This is not new news lol

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