Is ext.to dangerous? It caused librewolf to ask for firewall permissions

Nix@merv.news to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 93 points –

I've never seen any website cause a firewall permission request

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This isn't a website asking for permission. It's the browser exe itself.

This seems like the bare minimum permissions for a web browser.

Windows asks for this permission when a program needs to accept unsolicited incoming network requests. Not something a browser normally requires.

Too bad this windows firewall dialog is really sparse on details. We really have no way have telling whether that is normal permissions or not.

Ive never gotten this request before though and ive been browsing for a while. I didn’t accept it and the browser continues working fine. Doesnt seem standard

when my browser asks me for a firewall pass and i haven't directly and intentionally prompted that to happen i click "no"