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chadgpt3today at 3:50 PM1 replyview on HN

Turn off the web browser feature that allows JS in an advertisement in a background tab to globally grab your input.


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orbital-decaytoday at 4:31 PM

Sure, browsers had three decades of adversarial testing to evolve into sandboxes, but what are you going to do in case of something like the xz backdoor in a desktop application? It's no longer a hypothetical in 2020s.