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Re:Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to ... by mynameisvlad on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:05PM (#23683049)
Anyone can request MIDI permissions.

The parent comment implies a bad actor using the API for something like fingerprinting, and a common user who may have never even heard of MIDI, let alone have a device.

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Re:Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to ... by mavhc on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @05:01AM (#23699410)
But won't the user then go "why would I allow this website to access something I don't know about?" or, if they clicked yes anyway, the entropy would be ~0 as they have no midi devices.

This is assuming we moved to a model where more permissions had to be requested rather than just allowed

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Re:Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to ... by mynameisvlad on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:00PM (#23719940)
No, of course they wouldn't. You or I would, sure, but a regular user is pretty much conditioned to accept whatever to make the page load.
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Re:Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to ... by mavhc on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:43AM (#23748425)
If they don't care about privacy enough to learn about it, that's fair, no point wasting your time to avoid a problem that isn't affecting you much.
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