foobar.com wants to access your location. [Block] [Allow]
foobar.com wants to access your camera and microphone. [Block] [Allow]
foobar.com wants to send push notifications. [Block] [Allow]
Ideally these prompts are presented above the line of death, and clicking “Block” prevents future prompts, so you can’t get spammed.
Of course users click on these prompts without caring. Of course websites may try to unnecessarily block access if you dont agree. Of course websites make their own obviously fake prompts so you click “block” and then they present the obviously fake prompt again just to waste your time.
But users already download and open random files and grant them admin privileges, and websites already spam you. The current notification system works and extending it to WebGPU and file systems is natural.
Exactly my thoughts when the pitchforks come out over advances in browser tech. Arguments denouncing such progress eventually leave me feeling like banning personal computers and only allow communication via physical paper would be the only way to satisfy the nay-sayers.
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We already have this system.
Ideally these prompts are presented above the line of death, and clicking “Block” prevents future prompts, so you can’t get spammed.
Of course users click on these prompts without caring. Of course websites may try to unnecessarily block access if you dont agree. Of course websites make their own obviously fake prompts so you click “block” and then they present the obviously fake prompt again just to waste your time.
But users already download and open random files and grant them admin privileges, and websites already spam you. The current notification system works and extending it to WebGPU and file systems is natural.
Exactly my thoughts when the pitchforks come out over advances in browser tech. Arguments denouncing such progress eventually leave me feeling like banning personal computers and only allow communication via physical paper would be the only way to satisfy the nay-sayers.