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Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by rcarmo on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @04:34AM (#24490716)
I came here to point out _exactly_ this. And I wouldn't stop at permissions, these things should be session-only and not persist across visits.
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Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by tomayac on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:19AM (#24491238)
The use case here is to exactly restore your window arrangement (https://web.dev/multi-screen-window-placement/#the-getscreen....), a feature that people working in IDEs or terminal windows probably will appreciate.
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Re:Managing Several Displays with the Multi-Screen Window Pl... by rcarmo on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:27AM (#24491270)
It still needs more control. Advertisers will use _anything_ for fingerprinting.
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