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Re:Innovations of 2018 by adtechdetected on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:02AM (#18768984)
I got android popups from the article asking if Firefox could have permission for my audio and video.

Now I wonder if you say yes to those once in your mobile browser if ad tech can use those permissions on any site to record you

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Re:Innovations of 2018 by otachack on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:38AM (#18769342)
I've been getting that from a ton of sites. I'm not sure why it's happening nor have I dived in to find out. Wonder if it's a Firefox issue.
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Re:Innovations of 2018 by tomazz on Friday December 28, 2018 @03:29AM (#18775526)
yeah interesting question. Are you giving the permission for the domain or globally for the ad tech that asked it (assuming it was the ad tech but maybe it was something else from the site)

And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!

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