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In the world we have now, limiting XMLHttpRequest and Fetch to the same host as the current page would be great. But if that had always been the limitation, I fear that the adware peddlers would have just gotten proficient at shipping PHP packages/extensions that you could run on the same server as your site, and we'd be in largely the same situation, except that blocking the stuff would be harder than it is for us today.


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