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"Allow this Website unrestricted access to the internet?" Seems no more or less confusing or understandable than allowing access to microphone or camera.
by dleslie 4y ago
"Allow this Website unrestricted access to the internet?"
Seems no more or less confusing or understandable than allowing access to microphone or camera.
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- Nursie 4y agoAnd your internal network.
- simonw 4y agoRight - the original reason for same origin policies in browsers was to prevent scripts from stealing data from private corporate intranets.
- virgildotcodes 4y agoI mean, I could honestly see a ton of confusion along the lines of “isn’t this website already on the internet? what??”
- usrn 4y agoAlso not knowing if disabling it will break the page, something even technically inclined people can't know ahead of time. It's not like push notifications where you would have to try hard to build pages that could break without the feature enabled. I could easily see people abusing this to serve pages over alternate protocols and making people expect to need to click "allow."
- dleslie 4y agoIt's implied it will break or limit the page; just as denying access to microphone and video has that implication.
- dleslie 4y agoIt's no more confusing than the warning provided for self signed certificates.
- simonw 4y agoThat requires people to know what "access to the internet" means. A sizable portion of internet users think that the internet is what you get when you click the Facebook icon on your phone. But they do at least understand what a microphone and webcam are for.
- dleslie 4y agoSo make the default negative and appealing, and the positive option scary and diminished. As Firefox does with self signed certificates and similar.