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> The more layers the attacker has to break and the harder each layer is, the better.

No its not, when it comes to end-user app performance, experience or privacy.

Sure, by adding security we can have another reason to let developers end up with golang app compiled to wasm running within electron sandboxed through API redirection (OS + antimalware/antivirus/BPF based EDR) and use it for, like, listening music in a very secure way..

With all these layers happily streaming all kinds of telemetry to knows where, with owning nothing but a bunch of numbers behind a ton of DRM layers, and with no ability to change things to the point where we can't have an app's theme matching system colors because crossplatform compatibility/security reasons.

Case 1, firefox:

> dom.security.unexpected_system_load_telemetry_enabled > security.app_menu.recordEventTelemetry > security.protectionspopup.recordEventTelemetry > security.certerrors.recordEventTelemetry

I don't want to accept developer's assumption that these have to be enabled by default.

Case 2, Windows: can't even do a build of a trusted codebase under IntelliJ without antimalware adding up, like, +150% to build time. While IntelliJ (or some of its extensions or plugins that creep up during development) is happily reporting that performance issue back to its masters. Ugly.




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