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so weird I scrolled down that page really quickly then it's asking to use my camera? hmm

not trying to take away from what appears to be a great read

I was a little skeptical. Repeated the steps. Indeed it asks for camera access.

Looks like it is to take a photo for the certificate at the bottom of the page

https://github.com/BloombergMedia/whatiscode/blob/master/mod...

Oh I see. Yeah when you do a ctrl+f it doesn't say something like "let us take a picture of you" but I do see the cert at the bottom/placeholder when you decline.

Suppose it could be a wow factor/adds to the interactive elements of the page.

Yeah it wasn't as immediately obvious to me what was going on as I think the author expected, seeing something ask for my camera unexpectedly is alarming! But the article was otherwise pretty great.

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