• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        More specifically, it’s an xlsx spreadsheet.

        Not that showing the URL would’ve revealed that information. The URL includes the word “download” but that doesn’t really say much.

              • Kuinox@lemmy.world
                13·
                2 months ago

                Simply clicking a link to open a website would never infect your machine.

                Exploit to escape the js sandbox exists, there is a dozen brower 0day per year.

                Only certain files are loaded in websites

                Any files are downloaded and loaded, javascript can download arbitrary file in memory, browser too if the server serves incorrect MIME types.

                Downloading files to your machine carries a much bigger risk.

                The files are downloaded on your machines either case, when the browser do it, it still write the files on disk in it’s cache.

                That’s how the internet works.

                Given your other comments, I’d argue you dont know how it works.

                  • Kuinox@lemmy.world
                    12·
                    2 months ago

                    You clearly don’t know why Chrome uses such massive amounts of RAM.

                    You clearly have no idea how modern browsers works.

                    Those are checked by the browser and any mismatch is highlighted as suspicious.

                    Yep, you have no idea, you spew nonsense.

                    Go ask AI again to help you reply again.

                    You should ask AI, you would learn something.
                    I dont need, I worked as a dev on webapps, so I know what a browser do.
                    Let me introduce you to: caching.
                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_cache
                    Which store on disk all the thing the browser query.