Chrome worked to re-enable precise timers after implementing a number of mitigation strategies. They could always lower precision again, if necessary. Though

Chrome worked to re-enable precise timers after implementing a number of mitigation strategies. They could always lower precision again, if necessary. Though it's unfortunate how much progress and performance we've lost to Spectre. Interestingly the Chromium blog posted about mitigating side-channel attacks just earlier today. https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/mitigating-side-channel-attacks.html https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/mitigating-side-channel-at... The Google Security blog also has a writeup on this PoC. https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/a-spectre-proof-of-concept-for-spectre.html https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/a-spectre-proof-of-c...