W3C is a consortium of people farmers like Google & Facebook. “Standardising” privacy-eroding features is another way to farm you better.https://twitter.com/lukOlejnik/status/762640771082223616 …
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So ask the W3C why this isn’t the case in all their standards and how that benefits their members who make money by tracking/analysing you.https://twitter.com/aral/status/834675468846645248 …
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W3C is far from some benevolent entity working to improve the web; it’s companies like Facebook/Google standardising
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Also question every protocol that comes out of Google: it was not born in a vacuum; how does it help further their core business model?
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and granularity of sensor access permission should be on site by site basis!

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Exactly.
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This is without doubt made the web less safe. It is possible to fingerprint not just browsers, but the OS too:https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/02/now-sites-can-fingerprint-you-online-even-when-you-use-multiple-browsers/ …
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That is mostly up to the Browser implementation to decide the UX there. But still, see https://www.w3.org/TR/permissions/
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That's where the operating system needs to be involved. If app X wants access to location it must request through OS api
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Android does this at runtime. The app must request permission and the user can allow or deny on per feature basis
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Web browsers have been doing that for privacy sensitive APIs since day 1. Android used to do it at install time before 6.0
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I can understand the move from apps to webapps (and the need to access sensors) but their permission model should indeed be opt in.
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