clugstj is correct (https://lwn.net/Articles/1068851/)
> Why were web sites ever able to access your local network without your permission? This seems like it was always a bad idea.
> Why were web sites ever able to access your local network without your permission? This seems like it was always a bad idea.
Suspiciously few people care enough to notice such things and then put 2 and 2 together.
The only explanation I have, has to do with the suspiciously numerous people who care suspiciously much about the necessity of calling you names when you do identify some glaring contradiction, security hole, or the like.
"How dare you perceive what is right in front of your eyes! You must instead perceive the imaginary things that everyone is talking about (or, shh, be destroyed, hehe)" is a common enough token sequence that human languages usually have got it compressed down to 1-2 words.