U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown

Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by mr_toad on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:33AM (#26834368)

Agreed, but many people are arguing that browsers should be able to alter the system outside the browser (e.g desktop shortcuts and notifications).

I think that these things should remain under the control of the operating system.

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Re:U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crac... by pjc50 on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:16AM (#26834902)

> browsers should be able to alter the system outside the browser (e.g desktop shortcuts and notifications).

I've not seen the argument about desktop shortcuts?

Notifications are one of those features which has already been added and is a nuisance in 99% of cases, but I can see there being one or two use cases where a website sending notifications without requiring a full native app (and approval process!) is worthwhile.

The "should this hardware be available to the browser" fight happens for every feature.

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