It’s been over a year with these macOS pop-ups and I still have any idea why an app is asking, what should I say, what is the penalty for choosing Don’t Allow, etc. What a frustrating experience.

(Edit: I’m showing Chrome here but I am getting them for so many other apps without seemingly any rhyme or reason.)

I say Don’t Allow all the time not because I think the app doesn’t deserve access, but because I have no idea why it’s asking to begin with! I just feels like noise, and bad UI storytelling.
A classic rule for these: show them after I invoked an action that lets me connect the permission to the intent, or explain the reason. Other dialogs like these are usually much better at this (for example: asking for permission to a Documents folder when I try to save a file). I am not sure why this one is so awful.
@mwichary I assume those applications just do a lot of shady shit so you don’t actually invoke anything. I just wished it would show more information what was the action that invoked it. I just say no.