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by js2 1052 days ago
> Interesting though it involves recompiling the web browser.

Years ago I really wanted to disable the blink tag, so I just ran `perl -pie "s/blank/abcde/g"` on the binary and that worked well enough.

I'll bet you could so something similar with "debugger". On macOS, you'd break code signing, but you could re-sign it or strip the signing and let it run unsigned.

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What makes it special in macos?
macOS verifies signatures of all apps. Windows comes close, if you configure enough GPOs, otherwise it just gives you a warning. (If you've seen the "unknown publisher" warning that literally everyone immediately clicks past, that's what I mean.)
Yeah. I used to do that sort of stuff a lot in my younger years, lol.