Comment by bakugo
9 months ago
Don't know about the rest, but ungoogled chromium scrambles every occurrence of the string "google" in the code specifically to avoid things like this, so probably not.
9 months ago
Don't know about the rest, but ungoogled chromium scrambles every occurrence of the string "google" in the code specifically to avoid things like this, so probably not.
It is disabled: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blo...
If this flag is true then the extension is added: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr... and https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
Scrambles to a static unpurchased domain?
No network traffic is allowed on that random TLD. It is blocked.
If you end up with characters outside of the valid range after scrambling, then probably not.
You’d hope so right?
If you don’t want to use Google’s browser, don’t use Google’s browser.
I don’t think you understand the security implication of what you just said.
Edit, if it’s not obvious: an unclaimed domain with special permissions is a massive security hole.
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Unless Chromium does something like atob("Z29vZ2xlLmNvbQ==")
Malware obfuscation techniques to fuel the ad machine.
What if it’s checking a hash of the domain name?