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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Vivaldi and Brave have the option to disable the Hangouts extension in settings, which should disable this.

As linked in the article, it is indeed used for "Hangouts" (Meet) troubleshooting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This is good news since Vivaldi is my goto chromium browser (when I need to really use it)