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Grrr. Browser/Web standard people went crazy with API's and never stopped to think how the world will abuse them to do crap like this.
by zie 2y ago
Grrr. Browser/Web standard people went crazy with API's and never stopped to think how the world will abuse them to do crap like this.
- IshKebab 2y agoThey definitely thought about it, but fingerprinting is already so easy, and really difficult to stop even if you started the web platform from scratch. Nobody is going to accept "websites can't play any audio because it would make fingerprinting sliiiiiightly easier".
- account42 2y agoMaybe I'm an extreme outlier, but I don't want 99.99% of websites to be able to make any noise at all. And for the remaining ones I could live without audio too.
- account42 2y agoConsidering which companies are largely responsible for adding these APIs, maybe they did think about how they can abuse them.