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Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by neotek on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:47PM (#23253730)
>Not all sites need it, and given the abuse it’s responsible for, it shouldn’t be permitted unless a user opts in.

And 99.999% of internet users will therefore be trained to blindly click "accept" on any permission popups a website shows them, since outside of HN pretty much everybody loves and appreciates the rich functionality javascript provides.

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Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by catalogia on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:24PM (#23254254)
> And 99.999% of internet users will therefore be trained to blindly click "accept" on any permission popups a website shows them

Or not, when they inevitably discover that leaving it turned off bypasses 90% of newspaper website paywalls whereas turning it on slows their browser down to a crawl and floods their screen with ads.

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