Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors

[Retro]

That's a nasty trick that some websites pull.

I'm sure Firefox and Chrome will follow in adding this feature.

Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors

Brave will allow users to choose which sites can access local network resources.

arstechnica.com

 

[Uncrowned]

Do you think Chrome will follow this? I have a feeling Google won't push the feature. Firefox might for sure, but Google loves its personal data and has done much worse itself than port scanning.

 

[Retro]

Yes, I believe that they might well do it. It's one thing to track people with cookies, which can technically be rejected, but quite another to do a port scan on the quiet. I can quite easily see a law being created to make this illegal along with other similar behaviours.

I reckon Firefox will do this before Chrome though.

 

[live627]

Why would the big kahuna block this, a potential boon for Alphabet?