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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity (arstechnica.com)
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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed full-fledged office suites, photo- and video editors, or even integrated development environments (IDEs) that run entirely within the browser.”

Yup. This is what you get when you let online randos run code on your computer with almost no end-user decision process about whether they want to let website code run. And we made it so the web is almost unusable without having this capability enabled all the time.

Fixed that for you