Looking beyond Prompts for Permissions in Chrome

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Chrome shows that shrinking prompts into a tiny chip cuts visible grants from about 20% to 1%, so reduced interruption can also remove desired consent. Chrome deploys automatic permission revocation (revoke after two months of inactivity) and one-time grants (valid only while the tab is open), and ships an on-device Chrome Permission Suggestion Service that predicts refusals and hides prompts for likely denials; heuristics also silence prompts from the worst 10% of notification offenders. These changes ship or are rolling out and shift control from push to user-pull.

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1. 0:00Permission prompts in Chrome
2. 2:16Problems with prompts
3. 5:09Mitigating interruptive prompts
4. 9:03Root cause of limitations
5. 11:09Rethinking permissions beyond prompts
6. 14:21Summary and user-pull model

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