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It's sort of interesting that Brave was not affected by this because they already blocked the technique used by the Yandex app. I wonder if Brave devs were aware of that specific abuse, or if they just thought that localhost traffic was distasteful categorically.



I really wish I was ok, morally, with using Brave.

One of the few that seem to have their shit together


Firefox in strict mode should be unaffected?




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