Re: [whatwg/fetch] CORS should not be enforced on cross-origin requests where credentials is omit or same-origin (#787)

sure it does! but it also has a username/password. With this change, I wouldn't be able to pass an `Authorization` or a `Cookie` header, so there would be no way to access it anyways.

Another security risk to a completely open intranet site, is that I could have a user download a _portable_ native application onto their computer, then I have unrestricted access to every intranet site. This again, is why corporations have additional protections on their intranet site, and why my router requires a password on it's site. Sure, there might be some old old routers that don't, but that's _already_ a huge security vulnerability that should be fixed anyways.

My point is, is that the browser is unnecessarily protecting intranet sites and giving a false sense of security.

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