User-visible origin private filesystems?

[EternityForest]

The fact that Origin Private systems as used on Firefox et al may be buried in a profile folder or in a database makes them useless for many purposes, while the full version that gives access.to.any.user chosen directory is unlikely to be accepted by the privacy browsers.

What about a limited version that gives full access to a directory, which the browser would make easy to file, like ~/WebData/default/DOMAIN/files

That way, you could build apps that give users more control of their data, and even allowed for using offline sync solutions like SyncThing, without the concerns of users selecting locations they might regret.

[tomayac]

Probably more a suggestion for mozilla/standards-positions#154 (which was locked for unproductive contributions the last time I looked).

[EternityForest]

Yeah, it was locked! I still think it belongs in the spec itself, with a flag to specifically request it, since just changing behavior on Mozilla's side might break something else, and relying on any implementation specific features is rarely best practice.

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[rektide]

This would be such an incredible pro-user revolutionary change. Moving this feature from site-specific developer black box, to something websites can use to expose the world's most common computer interface for their data would be an incredible fantastic lift. Apologies for the no new news post, but it's just so hard to state what a difference this could make for the web becoming a useful powerful medium that empowers users.

[bradisbell]

A pro-user change would be to allow users to use whatever directory they wanted with their data and the web applications they use. Anything short of that (including the hack/compromise of OPFS as the only option) is still anti-user and damaging to the web-as-a-platform.

It is not up to the agent of the user to dictate to the user where the user can put their files, with what software, and with what interaction with other software.