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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by selcuka on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @10:10PM (#44176615)
Why not? How is this different than, say, location access, or microphone access?

I want to be able to configure this per web site, and a permission prompt is a better interface than having an allow/deny list hidden in settings.

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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by afavour on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:36AM (#44177273)
Because users understand what “microphone access” entails. “Use WebRTC?” means nothing to the average user.
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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by selcuka on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @02:51AM (#44177855)
Fair point, but "cookies" didn't mean anything to the average user either, and "cookie consent" banners are the norm now.
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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by Vinnl on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:34AM (#44179565)
I think very few people would argue that cookie consent banners in the form in which they are the norm are a good thing just like permission prompts for microphone access are.
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Re:Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users' web bro... by mrguyorama on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:15PM (#44183069)
Mobile apps require location permissions to use Bluetooth right now, even though that's a hard to understand situation for average people.

If a feature can be used to track people, you have to flag it off or else you are just contributing to the tech Big Brother apparatus.

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