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Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

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Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#21

I just wanted to say, I enjoyed the little pixel art cat that runs towards wherever you click immensely. It’s one of those fun, whimsical little touches that I don’t see all that often. A reminder that the internet can be a fun, whimsical place if we want it to be :)

On desktop it follows the mouse no need to click.

Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#22

I just wanted to say, I enjoyed the little pixel art cat that runs towards wherever you click immensely. It’s one of those fun, whimsical little touches that I don’t see all that often. A reminder that the internet can be a fun, whimsical place if we want it to be :)

As I didn’t get that, it seems like the dev honors prefers-reduced-motion, and doesn’t display it in that case. Excellent of them, give joy to those who want it, prevent annoyances for those who hate them.

Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#23

I just wanted to say, I enjoyed the little pixel art cat that runs towards wherever you click immensely. It’s one of those fun, whimsical little touches that I don’t see all that often. A reminder that the internet can be a fun, whimsical place if we want it to be :)

On Debian, you can install and run the cat with

    sudo apt install oneko
    oneko &
Makes a great gift for colleagues who leave their computer unattended.

Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#24

Great research. As I've said elsewhere, Firebase's authentication model is inherently broken and causes loads of issues, and people would be better off writing a small microservice or serverless function that fronts Firebase. Also, for anyone trying to read the article, they should put `/oneko.js` in their adblocker.

> Also, for anyone trying to read the article, they should put `/oneko.js` in their adblocker. Only if you hate cats, pixel art, or are easily distracted.

I suspect it's that they hate are easily distracted (if "hate" falls outside of the series, such that it applies beyond just "cats")!

Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#27

while researching, i saw some data being sent over to the server, like this query everytime you visit a site I'm not surprised in the least --- basically the vast majority of software these days is spyware. Looking at Arc's privacy page, it appears to be mainly marketing fluff similar to what I've seen from other companies. I have yet to find a privacy policy that says frankly "we only know your IP and time you downl…

Yeah, and no mention of if they addressed this.

Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#28
post #2

This is such a fantastic bug. Firebase security rules (like with other BaaS systems like Firebase) have this weird default that is hard to describe. Basically, if I write my own API, I will set the userId of the record (a 'boost' in this case) to the userId from the session, rather than passing it in the request payload. It would never even occur to a developer writing their own API past a certain level of experience…

> On the other hand, with security rules you are trying to imagine every possible misuse of the system regardless of what its programmed use actually is.

Tbh you're doing it wrong if you go that way.

Default deny, and then you only have to imagine the legitimate uses.

Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#29
the developers working with firebase should enforce common-sense document crud restrictions in the rules. that's just how firebase is. everyone knows it.

now, when talking about ARC BROWSER, i am seriously starting to doubt the competence of the team. I mean, if the rules are broken (no tests? no rules whatsoever?), what else is broken with ARC? are we to await a data leak from ARC?

any browser recommendations with proper vertical tabs and basically everything working like it does in ARC?

Re: Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

#30

I just wanted to say, I enjoyed the little pixel art cat that runs towards wherever you click immensely. It’s one of those fun, whimsical little touches that I don’t see all that often. A reminder that the internet can be a fun, whimsical place if we want it to be :)

As I didn’t get that, it seems like the dev honors prefers-reduced-motion, and doesn’t display it in that case. Excellent of them, give joy to those who want it, prevent annoyances for those who hate them.

Same for me, on FF you can override it with:

  about:config
    ui.prefersReducedMotion = 0
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...
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