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Blocking content in Chrome Manifest v3

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Beware: URLs Are Pointers to Mutable Entities

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ericlaw
·9 mesi fa·discuss
The October 2025 Patch Tuesday patches locked down previews of files in the Windows Explorer shell. This post explains why.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
Mistakes and Successes in building the Fiddler web debugger
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·3 anni fa·discuss
Almost everybody knows this, yet most of us don't think through the implications, leading to some surprising results.
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·3 anni fa·discuss
There is no visible "OK" button on a SmartScreen reputation warning.
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·3 anni fa·discuss
.com files still work fine on Windows; Visual Studio installs devenv.com, for example (IIRC, it's there for a somewhat wacky reason. See %PATHEXT%)
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·8 anni fa·discuss
Many "irrational" decisions are related to interactions with anti-bot/anti-fraud logic.

I worked on IE in the days when there were many crazy conspiracy theories about silverlight and IE collaborating to ruin the open web. This sounds similar.