> On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:33 PM,  <andreas....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is the threat model for all of these permissions significant enough to 
>> warrant the breakage?
> 
> What breakage do you envision?

I can no longer unblock popups on sites that use HTTP. The web is a big place. 
It will take a long time for everyone to move.

> 
> Having said that:
> 
> * Geolocation allow for tracking the user
> * Fullscreen allows for impersonating the OS
> * Pointer Lock allows for spoofing

The two seem fairly trivial problems. The user will simply stop going to the 
spamming site. I don’t think it makes sense to treat them in the same bucket as 
the above 3.

> * Popups allow for spamming the user
> * Notifications allow for spamming the user

Thanks,

Andreas

> 
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