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[Proposal] Permission requests should be available only in context of user-initiated events

moonyowl
2018-10-31

To get rid of annoying permission prompts, it would be better to ignore permission requests that are made not in context of user-initiated events.

Permission prompts should have the same restrictions that are being applied to popup windows.

mkay581
2018-10-31

I definitely agree with this. There are so many websites that start asking for permissions as soon as I’ve arrived and I havent even done anything yet! Lol I could be wrong but I see no reason to allow permission prompts without at least giving the user a reason for requesting. Having the user attempt to do some interaction before showing permission prompt seems appropriate. This is how it works on Android and iPhone native applications.

elasim
2018-11-02

I think it should be part of vendor specific feature, not a spec. some people may want to stop care about permissions. If this have to, window.confirm() also need to be have same constraint.