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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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