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The <Usermedia> HTML Element

64 pointsby twapiyesterday at 11:56 PM29 commentsview on HN

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phantomathkgtoday at 12:42 AM

Chrome basically is abusing its market position, 69.65% globally, and becomes the new IE. Implementing its own HTML/JS standard.

The sad truth is, some companies will look at Statcounter[0] and say because Firefox does not reach 5% global population and decided not supporting it, actively or passively.

[0]: https://gs.statcounter.com/

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akerstentoday at 12:52 AM

Uughh why do we need this whole new html element and not simply make the getUserMedia API allowed to be called more than once if the initiator is a user click?

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usr1106today at 12:30 AM

Is this Chrome only or something the other browsers are working on, too? A quick web search does not seem to produce any relevant hits.

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felooboolooombatoday at 1:28 AM

Anything new I have to block so my ass can't be fingerprinted?

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wackgettoday at 2:44 AM

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rho138today at 12:19 AM

This won’t get abused. /s

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