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by jon-wood 3978 days ago
I'm not sure asking permission really helps. With things like location and video end users at least know what it means, and can make a somewhat educated choice. How do you properly ask an uneducated user the question "Should this site be allowed to open an arbitrary data connection?" - sites that want to will think of some vaguely plausible reason and users will click away.