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> I don't actually entirely understand the purpose or effect of Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy. I thought browsers already blocked cross origin requests without CORS headers in the response that allow it.

CORS applies to XHR/fetch APIs, not browser loading of subresources specified in the HTML of the page.

COEP optionally extends CORS-type protection to subresources.




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