Comment by mavhc
5 years ago
I'd assume the small percentage with a midi device who are going to music app websites would be more likely to know
5 years ago
I'd assume the small percentage with a midi device who are going to music app websites would be more likely to know
Anyone can request MIDI permissions.
The parent comment implies a bad actor using the API for something like fingerprinting, and a common user who may have never even heard of MIDI, let alone have a device.
But won't the user then go "why would I allow this website to access something I don't know about?" or, if they clicked yes anyway, the entropy would be ~0 as they have no midi devices.
This is assuming we moved to a model where more permissions had to be requested rather than just allowed
No, of course they wouldn't. You or I would, sure, but a regular user is pretty much conditioned to accept whatever to make the page load.
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