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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)
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[โ€“] SupraMario@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully no one comes in here and tells me Firefox does shit like this as well... I just swapped back.

[โ€“] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Firefox doesn't have a huge number of pages like Google does. The problem is collusion between browser and websites run by the same company.