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Show HN: Screen Sharing in the Browser
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#52Does this share your screen across domains? If so, how?
No, it doesn't share across domains.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
My 'dumb reductionist take' is me trying to tease out (with a little bit of humor) how you imagine this absolute security nightmare to be implemented in a way that wouldn't result in abuse of apocalyptic proportions. I mean maybe you had something ingenious in mind here, but then I'd like to hear it in detail instead of handweaving and arguing "there are other bad things so let's make it worse by 10 magnitudes". So n…
I would probably do it the same way any other dangerous operations are protected: make people type confirmation in (e.g. how you delete repos on GitHub), require you to manually add websites to a whitelist (e.g. how screen sharing for apps already works on Mac, or how some permissions work on Android). You can use heuristics to provide a more onerous confirmation for suspicious sites, exactly how running executables…
Thank you, that sounds somewhat reasonable, but I am still not entirely convinced that the added attack surface is really worth it..
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#55Just deployed a new feature, audio can also be shared now! But it's only supported in Chrome and Edge, and users must select the option to share a tab. It won't work for sharing a window or whole screen.
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#56wow, I didn't know this was possible
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#57Would be great if I could share a URL to the room, instead of a room code.
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#58Would be great if I could share a URL to the room, instead of a room code.
Thanks for the idea! I just made that feature!
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#59This is quite similar to https://screensharing.net. Works like magic. Thanks for sharing!