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		svick on Sept 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows Shutdown crapfest (2006) A lot of telemetry gathering done by websites is also executed on your desktop. I don't think it makes a different that it's written in JavaScript and not C++.

ManlyBread on Sept 7, 2017 | [–]

Of course it does make a difference - I can easily block the JS ones by installing NoScript.

Typhon on Sept 7, 2017 | [–]

Client-side Javascript is executed in the browser, not on the desktop, it is sandboxed, it has no unlimited access to my local data on the disk.

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