Posted by auberonedu 14 hours ago
- macOS 14.7.3 (23H417)
- Chrome 152.0.7977.84
- Hardware: MacBookPro17,1 (Apple M1)Busted. My browser is configured to do just that.
If it didn't crash your computer, it eventually displayed a single popup that said "Congrats on not using Internet Explorer!". I wish I still had the hate emails.
With that one, Ctrl+Alt+Delete, Task Manager, kill iexplore.exe was usually all you needed to do thankfully. No hard power off necessary.
If not, I have fond memories of using yours!
No data is stolen, no privacy is lost. All that happens is the perp loses any audience.
Turning off WebGL = no more Figma, no more Canva, no more Google Maps. A few self correcting sites seem acceptable. Evidence, it's been 15 years since this was possible and the world didn't end and the whole internet isn't freezing your machine.
Also, this is arguably a MacOS bug. Window and Linux have had GPU monitors that power cycle the GPU if a command takes too long. Windows since before WebGL shipped. Linux a few years after. Macs still don't recover from excessive GPU use.
I think this point of view is making it a bit too easy.
> I think this point of view is making it a bit too easy.
It's been 15 years since this was possible. How many times have you heard of this being an issue? Again, it's self correcting. Site freezes machine, user stops going to site. There's zero incentive to do this and tons of incentive to not do it. Even an ad, your ads would get banned, not good for you, no incentive.
This is basically an old-man-and-the-starfish situation for me.
> You're making a big assumption that a user will even connect the dots
If they do, it’s because their wildly inaccurate mental model happened to guess the right answer. What most will think is “I was just browsing the internet and my computer froze.” Maybe they’ll connect it with that notification they just got about renewing their antivirus software subscription. Maybe it will confirm their (probably mistaken) impression that their computer has been “acting weird” since something arbitrary and unrelated happened. And similarly, some people with an accurate mental model will mistakenly assume that they deduced the cause because they’re smarter, rather than having a different focus with corresponding lacking mental models in other areas.
Not true, given any unknown link or button press can redirect/go to such a site.
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