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Hardly surprising. This is very Google-like behavior. The question is do other Chromium browsers have this? Edge? Brave? Chromium? Ungoogled Chromium?

bakugo 2y 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.
- idunnoman1222 2y ago
  Scrambles to a static unpurchased domain?
  - doctorpangloss 2y ago
    You’d hope so right? If you don’t want to use Google’s browser, don’t use Google’s browser.
    - scrollaway 2y ago
      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.
      - 8organicbits 2y ago
        Perhaps you could explain.
      - doctorpangloss 2y ago
        I understood what the commenter was saying and the "security implication." I am mocking the thing that people want: to use Google Chrome but with the "googly" bits removed. It isn't super practicable. Just use Firefox.
  - Dwedit 2y ago
    If you end up with characters outside of the valid range after scrambling, then probably not.
  - rany_ 2y ago
    No network traffic is allowed on that random TLD. It is blocked.
- xigoi 2y ago
  What if it’s checking a hash of the domain name?
- yreg 2y ago
  Unless Chromium does something like atob("Z29vZ2xlLmNvbQ==")
  - 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
    Malware obfuscation techniques to fuel the ad machine.
- burkaman 2y ago
  It is disabled: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/flags.gn#L5 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:chrome/browser/extensions/component_loader.h?q=enable_hangout_services_extension&ss=chromium%2Fchromium%2Fsrc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr... and https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/extensions/component_loader.cc;l=365?q=addhangoutservicese&ss=chromium%2Fchromium%2Fsrc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
burkaman 2y ago
Yes, Edge has it enabled. If you open Google Meet troubleshooting in Edge you can see your system CPU. If you try it in Firefox it says "Try Google Chrome to see your CPU usage".

bakugo 2y 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.

idunnoman1222 2y ago
Scrambles to a static unpurchased domain?
- doctorpangloss 2y ago
  You’d hope so right? If you don’t want to use Google’s browser, don’t use Google’s browser.
  - scrollaway 2y ago
    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.
    - 8organicbits 2y ago
      Perhaps you could explain.
    - doctorpangloss 2y ago
      I understood what the commenter was saying and the "security implication." I am mocking the thing that people want: to use Google Chrome but with the "googly" bits removed. It isn't super practicable. Just use Firefox.
- Dwedit 2y ago
  If you end up with characters outside of the valid range after scrambling, then probably not.
- rany_ 2y ago
  No network traffic is allowed on that random TLD. It is blocked.
xigoi 2y ago
What if it’s checking a hash of the domain name?
yreg 2y ago
Unless Chromium does something like atob("Z29vZ2xlLmNvbQ==")
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y ago
  Malware obfuscation techniques to fuel the ad machine.
burkaman 2y ago
It is disabled: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/flags.gn#L5 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:chrome/browser/extensions/component_loader.h?q=enable_hangout_services_extension&ss=chromium%2Fchromium%2Fsrc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr... and https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chrome/browser/extensions/component_loader.cc;l=365?q=addhangoutservicese&ss=chromium%2Fchromium%2Fsrc https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...

burkaman 2y ago

Yes, Edge has it enabled. If you open Google Meet troubleshooting in Edge you can see your system CPU. If you try it in Firefox it says "Try Google Chrome to see your CPU usage".