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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 (simonwillison.net)
submitted 3 months ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.run 161 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Google web services take advantage of an API that only Google knows about.

Completely unsurprising. Google should have been given the anti-trust treatment long ago. There's not a saving us because the ones to save us are completely complicit. And people who write independent browsers will be smacked back down by having places like YouTube throttle them.

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 60 points 3 months ago (18 children)

In the comments its not just chrome that is affected.

Its apparently all Chromium browsers.

[–] vomitaur@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

including Vanadium?

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

This comes from hangout_services/thunk.js

I searched for hangout in the vanadium repo, no result, so it's not patched there either: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Vanadium

Just asked in their matrix channel.

hybridstaticanimate:discord Vanadium did not enable this at build time.

hybridstaticanimate:discord There is nothing to patch.

hybridstaticanimate:discord Other browsers chose to enable this.

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