This will end up being nothing more than an insecure vector for people you don't know to run programs on your computer.ġ) It claims to be secure by only executing in a sandbox. I think Web Assembly is a tremendous mistake. Its literally just been night and day in terms of stability switching off of Chrome and moving 100% full time over to Opera. Opera? They wait for things to stabilize, then port them over to their browser. And more recently, they absolutely broke printer support for a month or two, killing all web based invoicing one of my clients was doing. There is literally no way to tell if you're in a test or not. But even that window just lists things as 'default', not 'FORCED ENABLED FOR A/B TESTING'. Luckily, I found a buried post on the Google Help forums which described this broken behavior and which setting to disable in the chrome://flags window.

One time they changed the DNS resolver code on a hand full of 'test' users to an implementation that took 60+ seconds to resolve DNS addresses. I've had this break countless times in a corporate environment and spent days debugging this shit. Google shoves blind A/B tests to live end-user clients without any notification or sign-ups whatsoever. Built in communication tools without any add-ons. Because Opera is 1) more stable, 2) has more features.

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