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Even if they were to somehow show everything up-front, it would be user hostile design. No one wants to read and consider every possible permission prior to gra
by interpol_p 4y ago
Even if they were to somehow show everything up-front, it would be user hostile design. No one wants to read and consider every possible permission prior to granting it to the thing they want to use
Even if there were 20 items in the list, people would hit "OK," it's like accepting terms and conditions. Most people won't read them, they're trained to hit "Agree"
The whole model needs an overhaul. Extensions should be required to ask whenever they need the specific resource, rather than asking up-front. And each gated resource should get its own prompt with its own informative design. Similar to permissions on mobile
- wartijn_ 4y agoThat would make the password manager plugin I use extremely annoying to use. I want that plugin to read every page I visit so it can detect username and password fields. The same goes for many other extensions, like ad blockers. They should block all ads they can find, without constantly needing to annoy users with permission prompts.