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Because people don't expect their web browser to be able to brick their hardware.

• searchableguy 6y ago
  Then change the expectations. Native apps aren't much better as far as privacy goes. Users should absolutely verify everything they use.
  • dkersten 6y ago
    Sure but for a long time web has been touted (rightly or wrongly) as this safe sandboxed convenient distribution platform. The expectation is very much still that a website shouldn’t be able to harm your computer and that expectation isn’t going to change any time soon. In top of that, less technically inclined people don’t even expect native applications to be able to harm their computer and we haven’t been able to change that expectation.
  • ppeetteerr 6y ago
    Native apps go through an approval process
    • edoceo 6y ago
      Correction: some native apps on some platforms
      • danudey 6y ago
        Correction: Native apps on the platform this thread is about.
  • _trampeltier 6y ago
    That's why I have almost no Apps on my phone. Just a lot of different browsers. I think the new mobile Vivaldi browser is the first with an option to switch of the 3d sensor for the website
• om2 6y ago
  Not only brick the attached device, but also potentially fully compromise either the attached device or the device you are on. It doesn't seem responsible to put that kind of tis behind a permission dialog. Users are not in a position to make the judgment. The web should have a higher standard of security and privacy.