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On windows you shouldn't be able to do (most of) these directly with apps running under admin, though that's a small consolation when the browser is a normal process.

I'm not sure if we'll get away from these anytime soon as any out of the box solution will inherently limit the user's freedom that has persistently been there for decades on PCs



I have absolutely done all of these things on Windows, even for commercial applications. Programs that keylog (i.e. calls SetWindowsHookEx) sometimes get tagged by antivirus though.




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