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This kind of stuff can make sense when you consider "enterprise" environments like school labs.

Notice on the bug report that the reproduction steps include setting a "DeveloperToolsDisabled" registry entry. Curl / wget wouldn't always be accessible in this kind of locked down setup (and they're probably trying to make it difficult even if it's impossible to block completely).

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Doesnt this solution strike you as scorched earth? Kids figure out things, instead of improving said software, lockdown the actual browser?

It's nearsighted to the point of disbelief.

At that level of pay you stop caring for anything making sense?

Just saying. Apart from drug addicts doing blunt cybercrimes, I find the most creapy things are done by devs that got used to a big paycheck -- additionally, sometimes got fkd in academia before and just became a well trained cynic.

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