> "I still don't understand why the highest entropy APIs aren't gated behind browser consent"
Because it's known that interrupting the user-intent with a unrelated consent-popup doesn't help.
Older people may remember that this was the approach of Java J2ME, where you couldn't provide a fluent user-experience as the user first had to answer huge popups about individual API-permissions with "Always Allow", "Allow now" etc.
Because it's known that interrupting the user-intent with a unrelated consent-popup doesn't help.
Older people may remember that this was the approach of Java J2ME, where you couldn't provide a fluent user-experience as the user first had to answer huge popups about individual API-permissions with "Always Allow", "Allow now" etc.