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Smile! HTML can access your camera

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

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Is It Possible to Capture a Web Site With JavaScript?

The key is, do they have to make an action, right? Yes. If i'm interacting with a web site and it opens my camera, like i just, i was just aware i'm doing a thing, and it happened. I'm not concerned if it's triggerable by passivejabascript without having an event hangler involved. But now that even that has me wondering about other potential things. The trick here is that it's not giving you any kind of indicator or any kind of it's not asking for any permission,. Like if i wanted to get your g p s location, i would have to ask in some way. And those concerns would still be there in both scenarios

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