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> ... Checks if devtools is open ... Detects installed text to speech voices ... Detects if some Chrome extensions are installed ...

No web code should be given technical means to do such things in the first place. A big part of the problem is browsers are too liberal in exposing various unreasonable APIs.

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It's almost like the browser was made by an advertising company.

Like Mozilla? :-) I use Firefox happily (and have DRM support disabled completely) but doubt it differs seriously in this aspect.

Mozilla is a Google funded project whose main driving force is keeping up with Chrome, isn't it? It's not like they determine browser standards... Google and Apple set those and everyone else follows or dies.

Edit: Even in the IE days they were always playing catchup. Firefox is just the poor/free man's alternative to the corporate browser of the moment. They don't really steer the ship, just follow trends.

And these days Mozilla is basically an adware company anyhow. They just keep bundling random crap with their browser.

Just don't visit websites you don't trust. There is nothing wrong with exposing useful functionality.

You can’t be serious. Does this mean not clicking on any links in the search that dont lead to a “trusted” site? Not following any links that your friends send you?

I think fixing the browser is a less tedious task than limiting useful internet surface like this.

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