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		pizza 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone I mean, do Windows or macOS tell the browser which mail apps you have installed when it handles a mail:// URI?

josephg 6 months ago [–]

No, but web browsers do have the ability to ask the OS which application is associated with a certain url type.

But it doesn’t leak that information to web pages.

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