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0 points9dev5d ago0 comments

But it isn't the 90s anymore. Billions of people are using the internet, doing everything from voting to shopping to managing their stock portfolio. There are valid reasons why we have security protocols.

And aside from that - it's not like CORS is preventing you from anything. The only requirement is to read up on it, understand it, and configure your web server accordingly. If you're unable to do that, or you'd rather create your own browser, then the only conclusion I can draw is that you're either unwilling or unable to take proper care of the security of your users.

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koolala5d ago· 2 in thread

I don't care about my server. It has everything to do with what it is preventing my browser client from doing. The whole point is using content from the whole web not my server.

9devOP5d ago

You can do whatever you want with your browser client. You just cannot create a website that will make the browser clients of other people send authenticated requests from JavaScript to my site if I don’t want that.

koolala5d ago

Who said anything about authentication? The only freedom I want is being able to wget content no differently than from a terminal. You need a modded custom browser to do that.

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