Often, when we browse the Internet, web pages may ask us for permission to use certain components of our mobile phone. For example, if we access a website to make a video call, it will ask us to access the camera and microphone. Others, however, ask us for access to our location or ask for permission to send us notifications.
Chrome allows you to remove or revoke these permissions manually whenever we want, however, many users may forget, so the browser will soon take care of revoking these permissions itself, to protect our security.
Goodbye to permanent permissions in Google Chrome. If too much time passes, the browser will revoke them
Chrome is testing a new feature dedicated to user security: the browser will automatically revoke permissions that we grant to web pages, provided that a certain time has passed since the last time we accessed that site.
The idea of this function is protect the security of our data. Even if we forget that we have given a website permission to access the camera or our location, we will not have to worry as long after that website will still have the permissions granted, since the browser will automatically remove them.
The feature was discovered by X/Twitter user @Leopeva64 in the development version of Google Chrome, specifically in Chrome Canary. The feature can be found in the “Site Settings” section of the browser’s settings menu, and its description says:
Automatically remove permissions– To protect your data, allow Chrome to remove permissions from web pages you haven’t visited recently.
We don’t know exactly how long it takes for Chrome to delete the permissions we’ve granted since we visited a web page, but it certainly promises to be. a very useful function to protect our data without having to act ourselves.
Currently we can check which pages have permissions granted to the different components and functions of our mobile, and eliminate them manually, following these steps:
- Go to Chrome, then tap the three-dot button in the upper-right corner
- to push on Setting
- Then access Site settings
- Finally, go to each section (such as Camera, Microphone, Location and others) and delete web pages who have permissions granted and we no longer want them to have access to this functionality
It’s unclear when the new Chrome security feature will arrive, but since it’s already available in the Chrome Canary development build, it shouldn’t take too long to reach all users.
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