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by nephyrin 1439 days ago
UDP is not a privileged protocol. You don't need any capabilities to speak UDP. It's used by web browsers already for HTTP/3 as TFA mentions.

But also, apps needing additional capabilities is rather common and handled by most any package manager that's going to be providing you a browser. Chrome in various configurations ships with a `setuid` binary to implement their sandbox, for instance.

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UDP is not a privileged protocol.

True, but a raw socket does require privs.