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by fafzv 1142 days ago
Webmasters are not giving their users' browser histories to jsdelivr. Instead, their users have configured their browsers to load 3rd party content.
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Hackers are not exploting machines. Instead, the users have configured their media players to interpret that MP4 file as executable code.
Interpreting an mp4 file as executable code is not a feature of a media player, not to mention there's no way to disable it. Bad analogy.
Similarly, browsers don't have a way to disable loading any third party content.
This would increase your fingerprint substantially, which is very bad from a privacy perspective.
TIL AdBlockers and co don't exist.
They have an extension API for that purpose.
Is the internet even functional for browsers that don’t load 3rd party content? Isn’t that basically the modus operandi of the whole internet?
Guns dont kill people, instead shooting victims decided to be in the way of the bullet. /s