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by llbbdd 15 days ago
Right, but it does gate the actual installation behind a secondary approval in a trustworthy prompt that the page author doesn't control. The page author could of course make a dangerous-but-trustworthy-looking app that would pass muster for the user's approval, but at that point it's not any different than social engineering the installation of any regular malware, e.g. convincing a user to download and execute a dangerous binary.