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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by ysavir on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:09PM (#32889842)
You mean, like watch for an install of SimCity, and modify the game's files? I don't have enough experience in hardware and PCs to know if that was at all possible or practical.
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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by nix23 on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:30PM (#32890083)
>like watch for an install of SimCity, and modify the game's files?

Yes exactly! Technically easy, a Lawyers thing maybe?

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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by Someone on Sunday September 18, 2022 @04:52PM (#32891407)
Could also be interesting in a world where most PCs ran anti-virus tools of various different vendors.

Imagine Microsoft adding a magic “we’re the good guys” handshake to their OS that would all those anti-virus tool say “go ahead and do whatever you want”.

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Re:YouTubePluginReplacement.cpp: YouTube-specific code in We... by markemer on Sunday September 18, 2022 @04:00PM (#32890942)
Honestly you could probably do it today, but back then it would have been a lot harder. You’d have to find every buggy use after free. Just easier to change the allocator for it. Probably how you’d do it today under emulation.
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