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eknkc on Nov 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

Yeah it makes a lot of sense to do it this way, however it does not feel that nefarious when there were plausable workarounds anyway.

amenghra on Nov 24, 2022 [–]

Browser could implement finer grain permissions (i.e. only permit the API use for a given top level path regexp) but I bet most users won't bother fine tuning their grants.

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