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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 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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dantheclamman@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months 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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    I agree, but… This was in open source software. Chromium. Not just Google Chrome. https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7b443

    hangout_services/thunk.js (via) 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, but the code has been there in the public repo since October 2013 as far as I can tell.

    https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

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