[HN Gopher] The Launch of the Chrome Root Program
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       The Launch of the Chrome Root Program
        
       Author : feross
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-09-19 17:17 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.chromium.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.chromium.org)
        
       | greatgib wrote:
       | Why overriding the system root certificates store? Easy, so they
       | can further control another critical part of the web user
       | experience...
        
         | m-p-3 wrote:
         | IIRC Firefox does the same thing and maintain its own root
         | certificate store.
        
           | netsharc wrote:
           | Yeah, during the Windows 3.1 days the browser (Netscape) had
           | to bring this feature itself, Windows didn't have a
           | certificate store.
        
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