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by toraway 15 days ago
But that isn't how it works, it's not a prompt like asking permission to use the camera allow/deny. The user gets presented with list of compatible devices and they have to select one themselves.

An attacker could try to convince users to select something specific but that depends on the actual devices that are present and the "default" option to a confused non-technical person is to just cancel out of the list.

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I know it works like that, the part about "clicking allow'" was a slight oversimplification which doesn't change the point. Do users understand the security implications of giving access to a device in the pop-up? I don't think so.