alt Hacker NewsThere's a lot of good use-cases of Web usb, you can't just cut everything which might have privacy aspects otherwise the browsers wouldn't have canvas or even gpu rendering.
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yjftsjthsd-h • yesterday at 5:27 PM
There's a reason that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker... exists, though; a reasonable person could argue that firefox should be restricting canvas/gpu more than it does.
What are those use cases? It seems like a giant hole punched all the way from a tab's sandbox through the process boundary and out to the kernel... Yes, gpu rendering is a great example of the same problem. Canvas at least has some intervening layers depending on implementation.