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Chrome says "this site", no? Isn't it the tab you have in focus? I wonder what kind of person says 'Yes' to this prompt. It gives me the heebie jeebies.
by RajT88 2mo ago
Chrome says "this site", no? Isn't it the tab you have in focus?
I wonder what kind of person says 'Yes' to this prompt. It gives me the heebie jeebies.
- auxiliarymoose 2mo ago3D mice and other hardware may run a local server for web applications to use them as input methods. The dialog can also show up if you are using network security software which proxies requests via private IP address range. Plenty of other non-nefarious reasons too... Safari and Firefox allow this by default without a prompt or visible indicator (but maybe that has changed now that Chrome added its dialog).
- VladVladikoff 2mo agoNo, it’s a macOS level prompt.
- lxgr 2mo agoThen it’s most likely Chrome using local network access for WebRTC or Chrome without granting that access to websites without any explicit interaction with camera permissions or cast features.