> How about letting users decide to which capabilities they give permission depending on what they need?

No. In a war between Users and Developers the users always lose if there is monetary gain to be had.

It isn’t as simple as “hey if you don’t want this permission that’s okay go on ahead !” It’s “we’re going to get this data whether you like it or not”

I rather Strong strict privacy laws before opening the chrome dominance that will come.