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by twiss 299 days ago
There are, in fact, some efforts going on to improve beyond the status quo on permission prompts in browsers, e.g. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/...

Though, that document also states:

> Our research [1] finds that users often make rational decisions on the most used capabilities on the web today — notifications, geolocation, camera, and microphone. All of them have in common that there is little uncertainty about how these capabilities can be abused. In user interviews, we find that people have clear understanding of abuse potentials: notifications can be very annoying; geolocation can be used to track where one was and thus make more money off ads; and camera and microphone can be obviously used to spy on one’s life. Even though there might be even worse abuse scenarios, users aren't entirely clueless what could possibly go wrong.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642252