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Browser - Cross-Origin Read Blocking (CORB)

About

Cross-Origin Read Blocking (CORB) is a security feature that prevents the contents of a resource from ever entering the memory of the renderer process memory based on its MIME type.

The main motivation behind CORB is to give malicious web page a hard time pulling cross-site resource into its process to steal.

Process

CORB prevents the renderer process from receiving a cross-origin data resource (i.e. HTML, XML, or JSON) if:

Blocked = Empty

Data resources that are blocked by the CORB policy are presented to the process as empty, although the request does still happen in the background. a

Configuration

To prevent CORB:

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