Comment by Waterluvian
17 hours ago
They were so much worse. They’d basically “corrupt” your system state. They were often self replicating and so you’d have to quit the whole browser to make it stop. Sometimes even that wasn’t enough. Sometimes it would grind your PC to a halt and you’d have to reboot.
Isn’t this mostly because browsers in that era didn’t have process isolation (and if you were on a classic Mac, there wasn’t even preemptive multitasking)?
You shouldn’t blame it on the browsers that certain websites are malicious.
I expect the software I use to properly sanitise untrusted inputs, yes
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> Sometimes it would grind your PC to a halt and you’d have to reboot.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Measure