Fearmongering about new web capabilities by browser makers is best understood as an admission that native apps are a *disaster*. Doing better should be our urgent cause. Declining to try is a failure of imagination.
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It’s way too easy to unintentionally enable permissions permanently for a site with Chrome’s UI. The UI is what makes them scary. The vast majority of prompts I get I don’t even want to see. Too many permissions I grant are granted accidentally. Most others are too broad.
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Grant rates are quite low for permissions, even on sites where it makes a lot of sense to have the permission. Given that, I am skeptical that lots of people are accidentally granting them
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I would love to see a user study of the following scenario: I don’t trust video call site X but a job interviewer sends me a link to a video call using that site. I want to enable camera and mic access for that site for the one call and never again. What % of users can do it?
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Replying to @BRIAN_____ @__apf__ @slightlylate @hillbrad
Seems pretty easy in Firefox, where the default for camera/mic permissions is not to remember the permission (though it's easy if you want to).

Jul 22, 2020 · 5:49 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @BRIAN_____ @__apf__ @slightlylate @hillbrad
How long is "one time" / "not remember" by the way? Until I navigate to another site? Close the tab? Shut down the browser? The latter might not happen for weeks, with suspend-to-RAM on desktop
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