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What's the difference between a website accessing the USB device, and downloading an app that accesses it? (Apart from the website being more convenient and cross platform.) To put it another way, why is it ok to trust Arduino.exe but not Arduino.com?
- People have been trained to understand downloading and executing an "Arduino.exe" is potentially dangerous and that they need to check if they trust the source - most OSes expect a digital signature on "Arduino.exe" these days - there's a whole ecosystem of protection and antivirus software that attempts to detect malicious use - depending on your OS, an "Arduino.exe" can't even access USB devices without an additi…
Which OS are you thinking of? WebUSB doesn't need any additional drivers, so if the browser can do it I assume any app can do it.