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by notatoad 1175 days ago
i want the chrome apps model to come back - put your permission requests in a manifest, and when the user clicks and install button the app gets its permissions. so "web apps" that the user cares enough about to install get useful features, but pages that you just visit briefly don't.
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illiarian 1175 days ago
> i want the chrome apps model to come back - put your permission requests in a manifest, and when the user clicks and install button the app gets its permissions.

So you will get the Android case where flashlight apps where asking for everything, including location data and contact access, and people were giving it to them

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notatoad 1174 days ago
you can't protect everybody from themselves all the time.

some people are just gonna agree to everything, and you can't stop it. don't ruin apps for everybody just because some guy who couldn't care less shared some data with an app you think they shouldn't have.

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illiarian 1174 days ago
> you can't protect everybody from themselves all the time.

It's not an either-or thing. There are multiple levels to security, and just shoving everything into one big prompt, and letting users deal with it ain't it.

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