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Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
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[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 7 points 4 months ago

Cannot reproduce on chromium. Has anyone reproduced it?

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 14 points 4 months ago

yeah:

{
  "value": {
    "archName": "arm64",
    "features": [],
    "modelName": "Apple M2",
    "numOfProcessors": 8,
    "processors": [
      {
        "usage": {
          "idle": 10841460,
          "kernel": 611796,
          "total": 13342920,
          "user": 1889664
        }
      },...
[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 months ago

Did you use normal chromium or Ungoogled Chromium? I tried it on the Arc Browser (which is based on Chromium), and it worked, but it didn't work on Ungoogled Chromium.

[-] Hirom@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago

Neither. I use a chromium package from my linux distribution.

It has many patches on top of the upstream chromium. That probably explain why that unwanted feature isn't there.

This issue appear on Google Chrome for Windows on my other machine. Just uninstalled it, never used it anyway.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 8 points 4 months ago

Reproduced here, Chromium on Linux Mint desktop. You need to have open a Google.com site for it to work though.

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