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Google Quietly Enables 'Site Isolation' Feature for 99% of Chrome Desktop Users (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Google has quietly enabled a security feature called Site Isolation for 99% of its desktop users on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. This happened in Chrome 67, released at the end of May. From a report: Site Isolation isn't a new feature per-se, being first added in Chrome 63, in December 2017. Back then, it was only available if users changed a Chrome flag and manually enabled it in each of their browsers. The feature is an architectural shift in Chrome's modus operandi because when Site Isolation is enabled, Chrome runs a different browser process for each Internet domain. Initially, Google described Site Isolation as an "additional security boundary between websites," and as a way to prevent malicious sites from messing with the code of legitimate sites.

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  1. Chrome/Google is too powerful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    People always complain about the "nanny state". But I see far more "nanny corporations". Including people violently defending their nannied passive-living state.
    In both cases, it as bad and wrong. And it can only be done because a lever of power was given to egomaniacal pieces of shit.

    I would say "Let's switch to Firefox", but they have been doing he same shit.

    In fact, is seems globally fashionable. Apple, Microsoft, Canonical, Gnome, KDE, Google, Mozilla, they ALL do it. Like it's just "normal". When really, it should be criminal, and punished with prison, IMHO. (Sorry, it might sound extreme, but if you think about the harm of the long-term consequences, it is very much warranted, I think.)

    I'm writing my own OS shell, where the user is the boss, full stop, and it will not stop you from cutting your own figurative head off. Just to get rid of ALL that shit.
    I'm afraid in today's passive-thinking livestock culture, it might become very unpopular. But so be it. At least then I can tell who's still an individual.
    But I digress ...