Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
The backstory on this, if you don't follow web security at all, is that building public web pages to trick browsers into talking to private networks (or your loopback interface) is a surprisingly pernicious attack vector. The modern countermeasure for this is to require devices parked on private networks to opt-in to the ability mix public Internet requests with private network accesses, using CORS, which is what this is about.<p>You should probably be mostly thrilled about this development.