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That sounds awesome. Maybe not as a 'prompt' (those are awful, and don't scale), but some mechanism for requiring the user to confirm their intent to allow it.

Web browsers are the first real application sandbox that most people have experience with. It's a really good one. There's this rectangle on the screen, and there's a label at the top that says who delivered the content, and everything it can do happens inside that rectangle. Any way it wants to escape that box ought to require my approval.




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