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You can read through the conversations to understand more of the context https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100#issuecomment-411931908 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/100#is... https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#issuecomment-403139745 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#iss... https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336 The main struggle is around giving informed consent that explains the risks. Understandably, browsers don't want to ship a "Set my printer on fire" button. The web is held to a higher standard because it's so much more hostile than the native app environments, with arbitary code being executed, without permission, from unknown and untrustable origins.