Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

Re:Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to ... by tuxone on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:41PM (#23681685)

Are you all serious about this ask for permission thing? Good luck explaining MIDI, HID, NFC and so on to the average Joe, in a small popup. We already have enough “I agree” buttons popping over the screen. Web should be built for everybody, it’s not the nineties anymore.

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Re:Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to ... by brlewis on Monday June 29, 2020 @08:38PM (#23685245)

Sorry, but Average Joe needs to learn this one thing to adapt to the modern web:

Say no.

Average Joe doesn't need to learn what all these things are. In the unlikely event he knows what the thing is and knows that he wants it, he can answer yes. But his default response needs to be no.

>Web should be built for everybody

Exactly. That's why Average Joe needs to adapt.

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Re:Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to ... by MatekCopatek on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:49PM (#23683612)

Sure, but Apple could solve that by requiring a user action to show that popup dialog. Or they could even block everything by default and force you to give permissions manually. That way average Joe is blisfully unaware of anything and completely safe while you just have to suffer a minor inconvenience of whitelisting that one legit website the first time you use it.

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