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by JulienSchmidt 2242 days ago
I feel like this should require the user's explicit permission, just like audio, camera, location or Flash and Java Applets at the end of their life.

WebGPU is a great innovation, but we have both privacy and security concerns here. It should be available where and when the user wants it, not silently in the background.

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Why don't you say the same about CPU or RAM? In the end it's just resources that are abstracted away to the user, used with the purpose of performing tasks in the most efficient way possible.
Because some resources have mature security controls around them, and some don't.

Why do you care if someone can see your bank account number? In the end they're just numbers.

> Because some resources have mature security controls around them

So we thought, then ROWHAMMER arrived..

What you really want is a security first web browser, not something that must prioritize feature completeness to achieve commercial success. I would love a spin-off of the Tor browser sans Tor.