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I've never seen any website cause a firewall permission request

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[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 77 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Windows asks for this permission when a program needs to accept unsolicited incoming network requests. Not something a browser normally requires.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago

Unless you're doing a P2P video/voice call.