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Google is killing the open web, part 2

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418 points akagusu | 1 comments | 17 Nov 25 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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altmind ◴[17 Nov 25 16:23 UTC] No.45955071[source]▶
Do you remember that chrome lost FTP support recently? The protocol was widely used and simple enough.
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chb ◴[17 Nov 25 16:32 UTC] No.45955175[source]▶
Widely used? By whom? Devs who don't understand rsync or scp? Give me a practical scenario where a box is running FTP but not SSH.

Edit: then account for the fact that this rare breed of content uploader doesn't use an FTP client... there's absolutely no reason to have FTP client code in a browser. It's an attack surface that is utterly unnecessary.

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1. superkuh ◴[18 Nov 25 00:01 UTC] No.45959889[source]▶
By many scientific and educational organizations for distribution of data. Places where the outcome matters and the way to achieve it doesn't. An FTP client in a browser is incomparibly smaller attack surface than, say, executing every random program sent to you by arbitrary third parties (javascript).