New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint

Re:New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perf... by geokon on Sunday February 19, 2023 @09:13PM (#34864203)

I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop. Just the basic idea of say hosting a static-site/blog on a VPS with a cryptominer that could pay for itself would have been a game changer - but was probably just the tip of the iceberg of possibilities. Instead we're still stuck either having to sell our traffic/info to Google/Microsoft, put up ads, pay for it out of pocket. The entrenched players won

The hacked site boogieman felt overblown (and from what you're saying it sounds like if would have died out anyway). I'm sure it happened, but at least personally I never once came across it. Or if I did, then my CPU spun a bit more and I didn't notice. No real harm done.

More fundamentally we're now in territory where the browser vendors get to decide what javascript is okay to run and which isn't.

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Re:New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perf... by duskwuff on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:36AM (#34865608)

> I guess slow/fast is subjective. It didn't seem like enough time passed for a legitimate ecosystem to develop.

Coinhive was live for about two years (2017 - 2019), and it basically ran the whole course from exciting new tech to widely abused to dead over that time.

> The hacked site boogieman felt overblown...

Troy Hunt acquired several of the Coinhive domains in 2021 -- two years after the service shut down -- and it was still getting hundreds of thousands of requests a day, mostly from compromised web sites and/or infected routers. It was a serious problem, albeit one which mostly affected smaller and poorly maintained web sites.

https://www.troyhunt.com/i-now-own-the-coinhive-domain-heres...

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