Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

IMO we need to stop giving more permissions to browsers. Everytime I install a new browser (I am intentionally not taking sides about which browser), the first thing I do is disable notification, microphone access, webcam, and location access.

All applications that want to interact with system level hardware needs to go through the system vendor. Get proper driver cert, developer account with their physical company address.

I have a special distaste for plugins, extensions, PWAs, and even <canvas> tag. Browsers ditched system UI and favor of CSS driven UI elements which created the soup of unimaginable mess, inconsistency and lack of quality of UI in the browser. And this is just UI, the level of scrutiny given to a browser extention is insanely passive. Extensions get bought and sold like a hot commodity and no one bats an eye.

I can't use a system level blocker (such a Little Snitch) to stop an extension from communicating to the internet without blocking the browser itself rendering it useless. I need to resort to a horrifying mess of blocklists and a Raspberry pi hoping to catch one of these domains in its hole.

I personally want a browser to display HTML, may be some interaction with the DOM to help out (check all boxes using jQuery for example) and that's all. I don't want anything more.

Maybe thats all you need from the browser. But I am happy that the browser can do all that stuff.

I can use BigBlueButton to participate in lectures, talk, share my webcam, even my screen. And why I should I care, if I can at any time, revoke that permission?

I use many web apps, which are incredibly sophisticated, from TickTick for todo lists, to LucidChart for creating diagrams, to google docs do collaborate on documents, to notion for creating documentation. I could go on for days.

I am happy, that the browser is as feature packed as it is, because it allows for so many wonderful apps, that wouldn't have been made otherwise, if they had to be made with any other technology, that is not as easy to develop cross platform applications for.