Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewed
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Google web services take advantage of an API that only Google knows about.
Completely unsurprising. Google should have been given the anti-trust treatment long ago. There's not a saving us because the ones to save us are completely complicit. And people who write independent browsers will be smacked back down by having places like YouTube throttle them.
This is why we need to all back firefox…
I dont care if the CEO sucks, or if they have some opt-out anti-features…
Chrome monopoly is a far greater threat
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