TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML

Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by notatoad on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:33PM (#32740318)

this seems like a pretty silly criticism - you have a feature that is both gated behind a per-site permission prompt and that has an option to globally turn it off, and you're still grumpy that it exists?

if you don't like it turn it off. arguing that things shouldn't exist just because you choose not to use them is pretty selfish.

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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by amalcon on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @01:47PM (#32740510)

I mean... it does exist now, and I don't advocate taking it out since people have probably come to rely on it for some reason. Defaults matter, though, and I suspect[0] that a minority want this default.

[0]- With only anecdotes supporting my suspicion; I haven't done a rigorous study.

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Re:TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML by lupire on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @03:37PM (#32742167)

It seems silly to ask for a release to be crippled just because a page does something obnoxious inside its own space. The solution to that is a URL allowlist or blocklist.

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