• kadu
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    3610 hours ago

    Ah, WebGPU, one of the “features” I disable anyway because its a major fingerprinting data point and no website is got any business running code on my GPU

    • @[email protected]
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      410 hours ago

      Why not? It’s already executing code on your CPU unless you run noscript or similar…

      Are there other features you’ve turned off? WebRTC perhaps? Others?

      • kadu
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        259 hours ago

        Why not?

        If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it. Are you rendering a cube? Are you mining crypto on my machine? And why would I need GPU-rendering? Webpages should be text, images and hierarchy.

        It’s already executing code on your CPU unless you run noscript or similar…

        That’s true! Now guess what extension I’m using

        Are there other features you’ve turned off?

        You bet. Some I tolerate not disabled, but spoofed or containerised per site.

        • @[email protected]
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          39 hours ago

          Sounds like a pretty solid setup, I also like temporary containers solutions as well, less hassle IMO.

  • @[email protected]
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    159 hours ago

    Does anyone else think that browsers implementing every single feature of an operating system is a dumb idea?

    • @[email protected]
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      21 hour ago

      Desktop OSes are not suited to running untrusted code, unfortunately, so you want to run as much as possible of your closed source megaco software in the browser

    • @[email protected]
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      42 hours ago

      Well, not. Browsers are slowly becoming the cross platform for your apps and it makes a ton of sense from resources (create a single app vs an app per platform) perspective.

    • @[email protected]
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      75 hours ago

      It can come off as a logical conclusion to most people never using anything but web these days.

  • @[email protected]
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    10 hours ago

    Stupid original title

    Firefox Catches Up to Chrome With the Addition of This Feature But Leaves Linux Out (for now)