Re: It gets worse every year it seems...
>The alternative is an app on a phone.
Or an app on your laptop with the built in mic and camera.
Seriously, who runs a camera over bluetooth? If I want to run my bluetooth mic with it, I'll pair it with the computer or phone so the browser can use it as a local device. It does not need to go direct.
There is no good reason for this "feature." Look at the figures, the suggested use case is IoT but how many of those are there? By how much has the attack surface of the web browser increased? Got a bluetooth tether available on your phone?
It's definitely time to ditch Chrome if you haven't already.
And as I've said many times before, we need more fine-grained OS control of applications. I don't care what the current configuration is, remote-triggering of a tunnel between remote websites and (probably) network-capable devices behind a firewall is idiocy.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
