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amavectlast Monday at 7:08 PM1 replyview on HN

That condition usually doesn't hold in practice. Very few programs have a reason for reading browser history or cookies. Excel has no purpose accessing the Notepad++ appdata folder. Not all-or-nothing.


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pocksuppetyesterday at 9:26 AM

How would your browser read browser history and cookies? It gets its own app data folder? What if I want to export my browser history to another browser - which is currently impossible on Chrome for Android, precisely because no other app is allowed to access Chrome's history file?

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