I'm on the fence. While I think some of these features should be absolutely not part of a browser's scope, I think there will always be legitimate use cases. W

I'm on the fence. While I think some of these features should be absolutely not part of a browser's scope, I think there will always be legitimate use cases. What I'm absolutely convinced of is for better controls. A little more than a year ago, our government required the banking industry to know their users' locations for some reason. So now the banks ask for my location, otherwise I can't login. While on a mobile device it would be quite hard to give them a fake location without rooting/jailbreaking, in my browser I could find a reputable, open source extension [1] that helps me protect my privacy. These kind of controls should be part of each of these features, without risking installing an extension with nefarious intent. 1: https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard https://github.com/chatziko/location-guard