Re: [geolocation-sensor] Support geolocation (especially geofencing) in the "background" (#22)

Speaking of requirements, I vote for requiring the PWA to be added to the home screen for better user experience from three perspectives:

**1. Making access to a sensitive feature ever so slightly harder might prevent abuse of the likes of Push+Notifications API**
The point that was already made here is that the PWA requirement ever so slightly, but does make it harder to accidentally give such a permission to some rogue website. This is also Apple's solution in Safari to the common abuse of Web Push API. As noted above, it's a simple requirement to satisfy for a malicious actor, but considering implementers' rightful high scrutiny towards the feature, I think it is worth going with it to increase its chances.

**2. Persistence in the user's mind**
It is just harder to forget about the granted permission if you have the web app on your home screen.

**3. Almost everyone knows how to delete an app**
This allows us to reuse the already existing mental model users have: "If I delete an app, it can't track me anymore." Tying the permission to home screen is just an additional way to keep the user in control.

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I also wonder if this proposal implies compatibility with things like Push API and Web Periodic Background Synchronization API? I believe this is required for plenty of the mentioned use cases. It was mentioned here before that timing out defeats the purpose of this feature, so I assume it's expected to be used in pair with these APIs.

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