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by pfg 3026 days ago
I'm not saying that you need to grant any kind of permission in order to use U2F tokens, but rather that a user thinking "I want to login to Google" and "I need to use that USB key thingy to do that" is quite likely to accept a prompt that requests access to the U2F device.
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Sorry, I guess what I was getting at is that in hindsight I'm surprised no browser ever explicitly asked me for access to the Yubikey or told me why it needed, I've just blindly trusted it because of the few sites I use it with.

On the other hand, it's basically functioning as another keyboard device and not a special USB device so it shouldn't be that surprising, right? (serious question)