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> Is there a permission for network access, and is it allowed or denied by default?

WebRTC data channels are allowed by default.

> Does the browser do anything to protect the user against something like this?

A nefarious website can already use the fetch() API to upload or download massive amounts of data if their goal is waste bandwidth. WebRTC doesn't introduce any new vulnerability here.



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