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Comment by swiftcoder

1 month ago

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)?

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Jaxan  1 month ago

You shouldn’t blame it on the browsers that certain websites are malicious.

  • swiftcoder  1 month ago

    I expect the software I use to properly sanitise untrusted inputs, yes

    • Jaxan  1 month ago

      Sure, but still, why blame (only) the browser?

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