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Re:A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' loca... by donnachangstein on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @04:28PM (#44185127)
> Sure - a destination is "local" if your machine has a route to that IP which isn't via a gateway.

Fantastic. Well, Google doesn't agree

The proposal defines it along RFC1918 address space boundaries. The spitballing back and forth in the GitHub issues about which imaginary TLDs they will or won't also consider "local" is absolutely horrifying.

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Re:A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' loca... by account42 on Thursday June 05, 2025 @06:18AM (#44190181)
Cool so it will protect 99.999% of home networks. Compared to 0% which are protected now. Sounds great!
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