Another way to stop it is to start writing software like this i safe-by-default languages like Rust and others instead of C++ with its numerous footguns.

See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs... for details.

Interesting quote: "(Some of us on Security Team aspire to get more of Chromium in safer languages, but that's a long-term, heavy lift.)"