WebUSB

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with WebUSB, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 3 complaints

Only Cancel button is enabled until user picks a device, so confused users cancel2026-04-21
Users can't tell a legitimate U2F device prompt from a malicious WebUSB access request2025-03-14
Permission popup on every page open is needlessly annoying, and users can't figure out how to revoke access2016-04-11