I understand the idea behind it and am still kinda chewing on the scope of it all. It will probably break some enterprise applications and cause some help desk or group policy/profile headaches for some.
It would be nice to know when a site is probing the local network. But by the same token, here is Google once again putting barriers on self sufficiency and using them to promote their PaaS goals.
They'll gladly narc on your self hosted application doing what it's supposed to do, but what about the 23 separate calls to Google CDN, ads, fonts, ect that every website has your browser make?
I tend to believe the this particular functionality is no longer of any use to Google, which is why they want to deprecate it to raise the barrier of entry for others.
Idk, I like the idea of my browser warning me when a random website I visit tries to talk to my network. if there's a legitimate reason I can still click yes. This is orthogonal to any ads and data collection.
I have this today from macOS. To me it feels more appropriate to have the OS attempt to secure running applications.
No you don’t - you get a single permission prompt for the entire browser. You definitely don’t get any permission-site permission options from the OS
I agree that any newly proposed standards for the web coming from Google should be met with a skeptical eye — they aren’t good stewards IMO and are usually self-serving.
I’d be interested in hearing what the folks at Ladybird think of this proposal.