yeah interesting question. Are you giving the permission for the domain or globally for the ad tech that asked it (assuming it was the ad tech but maybe it was something else from the site)
And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!
My desk got warm from the laptop overheating. No wonder. This page generated close to 900 requests and countless adware. Will we ever get "website optimization" on the innovation list?
I'm from Glasgow, Scotland myself and I've never been to US but I've done a fair amount of research. Our societies differ a lot if it goes to moving around. I can normally walk around the whole town(600k people). I take the public transportation when I'm lazy.
I am always amazed when I hear from my US friends "you have to have a car otherwise you can't get anywhere" or "there are no sidewalks". Wow. In Europe most of the cities are a lot more densely populated than in the US which cuts costs, but even though there is more people packed in the same space(lots of people live in flats), they don't mind bacause everything is close and they save their time. And green areas? Why have a back yard when you have a park 5 mins away.
It's interesting how the standards of living differ between us. It seems to me that a lot of people crave a suburbian house in the US. I'd love to live there for a while to get a feel of the society and why it thinks in this way.
There's a TED talk I stumbled upon some time ago - only 5mins but perfectly approaches part of the problem we are discussing here ;) "How to reinvent the apartment building" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-KnaYZJg48
Given enough effort and determination I can totally see how this could work. Maybe you won't be a programming god but I can totally see how those 2 productive years easily replace a 5 year CS masters course.
High schools, colleges, universities often have boring teaching programs that force everybody to learn at the same speed, programs that look like a progress bar (The Matrix training program?) In real life we can't ask Tank to load the Networking course from a floppy disk and yet that's what metaphorically most Universities are trying to do.
Because of that kind of system we are maybe 10-20% as productive as we could be. We are bored with exercises and we don't really want to do leaving them till the last moment before the deadline. Now, take a moment go back to your ol' university years and think. When did you learn the most? In labs and lectures? Or when you thought "It would be cool to do a 2048 clone that negotiates every move with the server side that you cannot cheat"? You got excited, spent a week coding, learning new things, redoing, rebuilding, learning even more. I remember doing project of that kind in my 1st year of the University. Over the Christmas holiday I learnt more than in the past 3 months at uni...
Yeah I could totally see the Make School work. At least I hope it will ;)
And if it was the site, why would they even want audio and video permissions?!?! They are a news outlet!