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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by nissehulth on Monday July 11, 2016 @07:49PM (#12075678)
If you connect Chrome to your account it does get full permissions for some reason. Perhaps Chromebook-related?
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Re:Pokemon Go is a huge security risk by Ezhik on Monday July 11, 2016 @08:28PM (#12075865)
Pretty much. Google was trying to cram the entire Chrome OS platform in their browser a while back (remember Chrome's Windows 8 mode?), although they've kind of taken a step back from it lately.
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