[oosjc9a5]

I am very happy that the web has no more APIs. I'm already tired enough of telling my browser that I don't want any website to send me notifications, to access my location, to access my camera, my microphone. And God knows what goes behind my back. Enough is enough!

[hutzlibu]

That is because of bad usability of the browsers, though.

Default should be for example some icon indicating that the website wants more permission ... and then if I feel like it, I grant more permission. Til the point of fully trusting and giving all access.

But a website is a website I just read and will never get more permissions from me. But a pwa ... like a game, I would grant more permissions. This is something that should be made easy from the browser to choose, whithout getting annoyed by permission popups all the time.

[crooked-v]

For comparison, there's old-school Flash, where the permission box for camera/microphone would be overlaid on the bit asking for said permission instead of modally blocking the page, and if you didn't give permission, it would still work fine, just with blank camera/microphone feeds.

[memonkey]

Isn't this usability issue on part of the website developer/ux designer too? What you point out is right, but it can also be implemented in a way where you're not outright just calling the function to pop up that little notification asking for [insert api] permission. It might be a better solution where the ux designer/developer has some sort of button the website that then calls that function for a slightly better experience.

[hutzlibu]

" It might be a better solution where the ux designer/developer has some sort of button the website that then calls that function for a slightly better experience"

But this would be up to the websites then. They could do this now, but they aggressively push for all the permissions they can get in the hope at least some click (accidently) yes.

I do not want popups to click away all the time. I want to decide that I like notifications from site x if they offer that.

[curiousgal]

I remember reading about USB access at one point, that'd be fun!

[pjmlp]

It is here, https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/03/access-usb...