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userbinator on May 24, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pastejacking

Because the whole Web movement is trying to make browsers into the OS.

Cthulhu_ on May 24, 2016 [–]

Already done; see Chrome OS, WebOS, Firefox OS, probably others.

lohengramm on May 24, 2016 | [–]

I got you, but those are actual operating systems. Regular browsers should keep being regular browsers, limits respected...

This clipboard thing remembers me of the webrtc functionality that enable browsers to scan my network without asking me.

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11407536

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