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tl;dr: When you explicitly grant a website access to your microphone, the site may keep listening in a popunder window after you close the original tab.
by nthj 13y ago
tl;dr: When you explicitly grant a website access to your microphone, the site may keep listening in a popunder window after you close the original tab.
- yincrash 13y agowithout any visual cue that it is listening, while normal chrome tabs show a visual cue.
- nthj 13y agoFair enough. When I saw the title I first thought any random website could start silently listening, NSA-style—the real story isn't nearly that crazy.
- coldtea 13y agoWell, given how Chrome's "implementation" works, all it takes is a Chrome exploit for that to happen too...
- Sidnicious 13y agoThat's not true, a camera icon is in the address bar in the popup — though it's not obvious.
- elwell 13y ago"When you explicitly grant a website access to your microphone" is the key though