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Users are familiar with managing permissions, they do it all of the time. Users have to manage location services and the camera in browser. iOS and Android also prompt for access to resources.

Why is it unrealistic to expect the same for other interfaces like audio, video, WebRTC, and other potentially exploitable functionality?



Most permission management most users do is click the "accept" button when installing an app without reading anything on the list. I don't see how that helps.


I'm not arguing against enabling users to manage the permissions.

I'm arguing it won't help a huge number of users because they will default to granting them.




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