LogFAQs > #979701868

FL81 posted...

The standalone app is just a Chromium applet (Electron)

I can't imagine it being a difficult feature to implement

Electron has more ways to hook into the underlying OS and fewer security features than the actual browser does, because it is running "trusted" (in theory) code, as opposed to a browser which can go to a web page that can be running theoretically anything in JS. Discord could implement it if browsers allowed them to, but also a global hotkey listener, if not handled properly, is functionally equivalent to a full-on keylogger.

Even if you don't think Discord is/would use it that way, it's not a stretch to say that other malicious sites (or even malicious ads on otherwise benign sites) could/would.