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In order to experiment with WebXR without having my Oculus continously on my head, I installed the WebXR emulator extension from Mozilla.

I'm stunned how often I get the permission prompt on completely unrelated websites.

I guess it allows tracking scripts to do even more fingerprinting.

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> I'm stunned how often I get the permission prompt on completely unrelated websites.

I have the same problem and found that the embedded Vimeo player assumes all videos could be played in VR, although the video is a normal, flat video, so any webpage embedding a Vimeo video, prompts that permission notification for me, although the actual video could be on a different page but still initialized on page load.

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