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All nice and welcome. At what point browser becomes full blown OS with the same functionality and associated vulnerabilities yet still less performant as it sites on top of other OS and goes through more layers. And of course ran and driven by one of the largest privacy invader and spammer of the world



> At what point browser becomes full blown OS.

Happened over a decade ago - ChromeOS. It's also the birthplace of other similar tech.. webmidi webusb Bluetooth etc.




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