[EGreg]

It is just like the small hacks that are possible with ANY of these “require UNRELATED user interaction” things.

Like being able to speak “” when the user clicks. Or something really short or kind of unpronounceable like “,,,,”. Apple could of course try to require the first speech to always be long enough to be unmistakably speech. But otherwise ANY user interaction is enough to enable ANY speech.

The alternative would he to have dialogs for everything: “would you like to turn on the camera?” “Would you like to let this website use speech to text?” “Always remember my choice for this domain”.

Seems giving the user a master switch that overrides things, and letting websites detect this and complain, doesnmr have many downsides but has tons of upsides.

And then of course there is browser fingerprinting. It’s now really hard to turn it off without breaking tons of sites that care about the width of your window (size of your phone) and your operating system, and so on