Permissions and pre-prompts: Providing good context to users

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Together with researchers at CISPA, the Chrome Permissions team ran a study on how websites prepare users for permission prompts, which was published at ACM CHI 2025. During this breakout, I'd like to present some of our findings and then have a discussion about the following aspects:

• The importance of providing context to users making security and privacy decisions on websites
• The role of so-called pre-prompts, given that other platforms recommend them [1,2]
• whether or not there is anything we want to (and can) do to address annoyance from misused pre-prompts

Please feel free to suggest additional aspects that could fit this breakout in the comments.

Agenda

Chairs:
Marian Harbach

Description:
Together with researchers at CISPA, the Chrome Permissions team ran a study on how websites prepare users for permission prompts, which was published at ACM CHI 2025. During this breakout, I'd like to present some of our findings and then have a discussion about the following aspects:

• The importance of providing context to users making security and privacy decisions on websites
• The role of so-called pre-prompts, given that other platforms recommend them [1,2]
• whether or not there is anything we want to (and can) do to address annoyance from misused pre-prompts

Please feel free to suggest additional aspects that could fit this breakout in the comments.

Goal(s):
Discussion the role of pre-prompts and potentially identify things we can do to avoid misuse

Materials:

• Session proposal on GitHub

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