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		dcow on Feb 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much... You should have been around before chrome books when any extension could do whatever it wanted without any permissions at all. Your understanding of history is missing some key pieces. Over time, Google has generally locked these APIs down not opened them up.

thelopa on Feb 22, 2023 [–]

Browser JS definitely never had the ability to unmount storage volumes before Chromebooks existed.

dcow on Feb 22, 2023 | | [–]

Oh but your Java applet surely could.

loa_in_ on Feb 23, 2023 | | | [–]

And nothing would prevent an extension from loading an applet

tgsovlerkhgsel on Feb 22, 2023 | | [–]

Extensions could, and this action could be triggered from browser JS.

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