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> If browser tabs were able to do that, all hell would break loose. So why do we accept it from applications?

Because I don't run random untrusted apps all the time. Whereas I do visit random untrusted websites all the time.



But Snap and Flatpak have an advanced permission system, designed so you _can_ run random applications that you don't trust.




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