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Re:Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? by rpastuszak on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:48AM (#23248285)
This isn't a loaded question, but how come people (especially the people here) don't know that?
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Re:Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? by SmallPeePeeMan on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:09PM (#23251183)
the real question is: Why do people write websites to behave more and more like native apps? In order to prevent a client-side install?

For applications that want special access to my machine, there SHOULD be a barrier to entry or inconvenience like a client-side installation.

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