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		gruez on June 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio? The parent is wrong. It's for fingerprinting your audio pipeline. Trying to record audio would result in a permissions prompt.

mikeash on June 27, 2019 [–]

My bad! It didn’t even occur to me that this might just be audio output, not input.

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