Re: [webauthn] Allow immediate mediation (#2228)

Sites can use that extra bit of information to lock out users who have credentials for the site but don't want to log in for whatever reason. A few sites like Twitter and Instagram show some content to logged-out users but aggressively try to coerce them to log in. With this feature they could be even more obnoxious.

Requiring user interaction seems worthless as a hurdle in an age where every site has cookie banners.

If there was a way to restrict this only to scenarios where the user was going to have to log in anyway, the privacy concerns would be lessened.

I can also see a usability problem when the account I want to log in to Twitter with is a different one from the one that my browser knows about.

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