Lemons@lemmony.clicktoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Shouldn't browsers protect what users write from being seen by the website (like customer support chats) before hitting send? Would it be difficult to implement?English
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1 year agoThat’s generally not how this works. Firefox doesn’t send what you’re typing to the website. Whoever developed the website made JavaScript that monitors the input for changes, and then sends a request to the host with the changes. To Firefox, this is simply two, non suspicious events. The JavaScript wants to see what is typed - that’s reasonable, could be to do some processing or update some text on the website. The website wants to make a http request - also totally fine, could be an API query for a search. There would be no reliable way to stop a website from sending what you type back to the host.
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