A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' local network

Re:A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' loca... by paxys on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:19PM (#44186153)

People accept permission prompts from apps because they conciously downloaded the app and generally have an idea about the developer and what the app does. If a social media app asks for permission to your photos it's easy to understand why, same with a music streamer wanting to connect to your smart speaker.

A random website someone linked me to wanting to access my local network is a very different case. I'm absolutely not giving network or location or camera or any other sort of access to websites except in very extreme circumstances.

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Re:A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' loca... by poincaredisk on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @06:37PM (#44186301)

"Please accept the [tech word salad] popup to verify your identity"

Maybe this won't fool you, but it would trick 90% of internet users. (And even if it was 20% instead of 90%, that's still way too much.)

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Re:A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' loca... by quacksilver on Thursday June 05, 2025 @08:05AM (#44190794)

I have seen it posed as 'This site has bot protection. Confirm that you are not a bot by clicking yes', trying to mimic the modern Cloudflare / Google captchas.

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Re:A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users' loca... by lucideer on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:25AM (#44189586)

To be clear: implementing this in browser on a per site basis would be a massive improvement over in-OS/per-app granularity. I want this popup in my browser.

But I was just pointing out that, while I'll make good use of it, it still probably won't offer sufficient protection (from themselves) for most.

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