Idle detection and shape detection worry me. When used in combination they could be made to force you to watch ads, ads could autopause when you stop looking at them or are afk. I also wonder how much worse browser fingerprinting can get with them.
There doesn't seem to be any safeguards for editing the content that gets saved to the file. Much like injecting extra commands into the clipboard when a user copies a terminal command, what's stopping someone from injecting a obsfucated piece of code to line 10000 of a python file? Maybe fugu could enforce a diff result on the of the original vs new file as an additional security step but that's just another alert out of the 10 added ones you have to deal with in your development process.
Is there any safeguards in the FileSystem Writable api to protect from this?
it's a sad state of affairs, but I see a project like this and think immediately what's the angle? what is it these fuckers don't like about webpages now. what new and interesting way have they come up with to subvert the work of those that created an open internet in the first place.
I got no further that "modified browser" than to suspect they are up to no good.
I'm not saying anything about this project specifically , just they sorry state of the Internet and everything that runs on it and the big corps writing browser tech. Now that mozilla sold out, your only portal to the Web is preinstalled with tracking software written by those least able to control their own greed
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 36.7 ms ] threadHopefully its done and one of these days Safari takes the same approach
Is there any safeguards in the FileSystem Writable api to protect from this?