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by justinschuh 3728 days ago
This particular restriction is intended to address things like authentication devices (e.g. gnubby) where you basically destroy the entire security model if a user accidentally allows a malicious website to connect to it.

That stated, the last round of discussions gave me the impression that browsers generally (and in particular Chrome) are leaning towards implementing this as a very alerting warning rather than an outright block.