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>As a user, I had no idea that the website I'm browsing is downloading a suspicious amount of data in the background.

not when you're browsing localhost, because it's implicitly trusted. chrome doesn't prompt you to allow access to the location services API when you're local either, but it does prompt for permission on the web. does the browser still not warn you if you try this same test using a remote server?



Hmm, that would be odd. Geolocation asks for permission even if it's localhost. Also when I download Angry Birds, no permission is asked.




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