Hangout services API - Brave

[Valynor]

Has been discussed before, please use the search before posting:

All Chromium browsers including Brave give special access to system/tab CPU/GPU only for Google domains

Brave lets you disable this in its extensions settings, with this toggle. [brave-hangouts] Always wondered what it did. Glad I always disabled it. Running this code in the dev console lets you test the API (from a comment on the HN discussion): chrome.runtime.sendMessage( 'nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome', { method: 'cpu.getInfo' }, response => { console.log('CPU Info:\n', JSON.stringify(response, null, 2)); } ); I tested this with the Hangouts extension on and…