[illiarian]

> I can't tell whether you're kidding or not,

I'm not. It's a bit of a sarcasm (?) listing a subset of APIs that browsers implement (or push forward against objections like hardware APIs) and that all require some sort of permission.

> but this is exactly the path Firefox was advocating

Originally? Perhaps. Since then Firefox's stance is very much "we can't just pile on more and more permissions for every API because we can't properly explain to the user what the hell is going on, and permission fatigue is a thing"