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Why would anyone ever say no to that, though? In order for a permission prompt to be meaningful, the tradeoff must be immediately obvious. For instance, "Allow
by geofft 8y ago
Why would anyone ever say no to that, though?
In order for a permission prompt to be meaningful, the tradeoff must be immediately obvious. For instance, "Allow this website/app to use your camera?" is a meaningful prompt. You might want it to use features involving taking photos; you might not want the site or app to see where you are.
But what is the downside of high-performance computing? And how am I supposed to meaningfully evaluate (even as a security nerd!) "Allow high performance computing that might steal secrets from your machine?" Why would I ever say yes to that?
- TomMarius 8y agoEveryone knows that anything high performance kills battery, or they will the effect right after they enable it and choose accordingly next time. If they're on laptops or mobile and a simple news page asks them that to mine crypto (assuming that it's not going to be usual at least for a few next years), it's fishy and they're not going to allow it.
- geofft 8y ago> Everyone knows that anything high performance kills battery Not everyone is on a battery-powered device, and also, it's often true that "high performance" means "it completes faster and therefore spends less energy." Certainly if saying no often triggers a polyfill in actual web apps, people will quickly learn that high performance means less battery. Agree about news pages but I wish we'd prevent them from using any serious amount of CPU, whether in wasm or JS.