You are an expert user, so of course you will demand extra powers.
The vast majority of people are not expert users, so for them having safe defaults is critical to their safety online.
> It is completely analogous to watching/hearing someone type their password on their keyboard,
Except the eye gaze vector is being delivered in high fidelity to your client so it can render the eyes.
Extracting eye gaze from normal video is exceptionally hard. Even with dedicated gaze cameras, its pretty difficult to get <5 degrees of certainty (without training or optimal lighting.)
The vast majority of people are not expert users, so for them having safe defaults is critical to their safety online.
> It is completely analogous to watching/hearing someone type their password on their keyboard,
Except the eye gaze vector is being delivered in high fidelity to your client so it can render the eyes.
Extracting eye gaze from normal video is exceptionally hard. Even with dedicated gaze cameras, its pretty difficult to get <5 degrees of certainty (without training or optimal lighting.)