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Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 35 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The attack creates a large OPFS file on the victim's SSD, with both Chrome and Safari allowing a website to claim up to 60% of total disk space through OPFS, which on a 256GB drive is over 150GB.

Am I reading this right? 60% of all your disk space can be confiscated by some random web site? I gotta figure out how to get my browser cache onto some tiny partition.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I've done it with some apps/games by placing the folder in question on a separate drive/partition and using junction points (I use Junction Link Magic, but you can do it manually from command prompt) to basically create a ghost of the folder in the original location that routes everything to the new location.

    You could create a small hidden partition just for the browser cache folder to reside on using this method.

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