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Look at WebRTC for an example. Despite having zero convincing scenarios where silent P2P data channels that discard your explicit networking (proxy) settings, that's turned on in all browsers.

Fun conversation: I asked someone involved with WebRTC for a real, non-video example, and they honestly suggested "maybe your browser wants to talk to your fridge and would benefit from data channel encryption". So far out of touch with reality.

Wouldn't surprise me in the least if, for instance, this ends up allowing enumeration by default or something else.




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