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There are lots of ways to protect your system from a browser exploit via containers, another user, a vm, etc as brought up by other people responding. However p
by harporoeder 3y ago
There are lots of ways to protect your system from a browser exploit via containers, another user, a vm, etc as brought up by other people responding. However protecting a browser from other applications is basically impossible unless you also sandbox everything else you are doing. Even if you run a browser in a VM some other process run as your user could just automate clicking the UI to do whatever. If you go qubes style and isolate everything from everything then it is fine.
- bombcar 3y agoProtecting the browser from other applications is arguably more important now than protecting applications from the browser; as the browser contains all your security information (cookies, etc) necessary to login (or be logged in) on all your important sites. People have been hacked by malicious Minecraft mods uploading browser data to nefarious places.