@dch @vertigo except you've started some random service / headless-app that is running with whatever privileges you've given it (usually your user privileges).

as per the sabnzbd example, you walk through the web app configuring the service, telling it where you want to download your newsgroup stuff to, & optionally setting up directories it will watch for download-lists to try to go get. you can use the webapp to upload download-lists too, but i believe the only way to actually get stuff out of sabnzbd is to go look on the filesystem where you in the web-browser told sabnzbd the daemon-cum-localhost-http-service to download to.

it's nice that there's at least some security condom, that you have some set of expectations you can apply to what you do from inside the web browser, but there is a local daemon free to run rampant, just like with electron.