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		ladberg on June 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio? It's Google's fingerprinting for tracking you across the web. It won't actually listen to or play anything, it just opens it up to see if it's there.

mikeash on June 26, 2019 [–]

We have no way of knowing that when a permission alert comes up. The only reason we’d ever allow it is if we were tricked or exploited.

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