Comment by tantalor
6 months ago
Looks like this is accessing "chrome.system.cpu" API, which any extension can access (given the "system.cpu" permissions).
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/s...
You can see all the permissions requested by this extension here:
https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
Yes, and that's the issue: Google is bundling an extension into Chrome that is unrelated to the operation of the browser itself, which gives another one of its products (Hangouts) privileged access that no other videoconferencing app has, at least not without the big step of getting users to manually install another extension.