In my understanding:
What happens is a Heap Buffer Overflow.
The Heap is a style of memory and a Buffer is just a chunk of storage where you place something that is a work in progress. (Think a Youtube video buffering, you are waiting for more data to come down so you can play the video)
The WebP image type has the unintended ability to write to more memory than the OS assigns it.
It can 'overflow'.
If you craft a WebP image file just right, you can write malicious code to a location in memory that the OS may think is executable code and then run it, all without the user knowing.
That is a great question!
I’ve certainly asked myself the same thing and the only answer I can come up with in 2 parts.
1: The game is compulsive. While you are playing you want to keep playing. And while the moment to moment interactions are dull (imo) but not so dull as to drive me away. There may be plenty of Oblivion nostalgia keeping me playing.
2: Many of the games problems appear in retrospect. The dumbing down of the subsystems, for example. Much like Outer Worlds; it feels fine while you’re in there but once you stop and step back you realise how crappy they are.
And long drawn out stories that don’t go anywhere.
Like that time I lost my wife? She went off to some town and I just pranced around the countryside for 3 fucking books, which was the style at the time.
They have the Trust API changes they are trying to push, which I believe they may try to make websites only support browsers using that API. They have a largest user base already so they have some sway, if Chrome won't load your webpage, you business might be dead.
Couple that with their anti ad blocking extension, users have to use Chrome to access webpages and can't block ads on those pages.
Mildly tinfoil-hatty, but I think within the realm of possibility.
I find Containers to be very clunky to use. I love the idea, but not being able to just send a tab, cookies, session and everything to a Container is a PITA.
It's got that LOLRANDOM vibe that I detest. Arc4Random was King.