Selective Permissions Intervention

[jkarlin]

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Title of the proposal

Selective Permissions Intervention

URL to the spec

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/selective-permissions-intervention/

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/selective-permissions-intervention/

Issue Tracker URL

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Explainer URL

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TAG Design Review URL

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Mozilla standards-positions issue URL

mozilla/standards-positions#1357

WebKit Bugzilla URL

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Description

This is a browser intervention to limit the scope of permissions granted for certain APIs such as geolocation, microphone, bluetooth, camera, and clipboard. In particular, it does not allow advertising related scripts to access these APIs in contexts in which other scripts can.

There is a spec change required which allows the UA to reject Permission Policy calls at its own discretion. Otherwise, the actual method for determining what is ad script vs not in a given context is UA specific.

This intervention follows on previous ones in Chrome such as disabling downloads from ad frames without user gesture, and the heavy ads intervention.