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Re:Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan vi... by NoZebra120vClip on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:23AM (#36596824)
Are you suggesting that as a bypass for Brave's protection or something? And you do understand that this is how browsers work in general, by downloading code, running, and forwarding data back to servers?
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Re:Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan vi... by nateb2022 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:51PM (#36606928)
I believe Cyder was explaining his (and my) understanding of what this new Brave feature is trying to prevent. That is the kind of behavior that this feature is putting a stop to, localhost connections.
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