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Cool. I don't have a camera hooked up to my Mac desktop. I specify Mac because Macs have a cool feature where you can use your iPhone (if you have one) as a camera. So basically I just prop my iPhone up against the monitor, screen away from me, and I now have the best webcam. Except, you have to manually do it, some website isn't just gonna initiate the connection. It's gonna ask the computer for camera permission. The computer handles all that on the back end. It's the same on Windows. If you're using Firefox, specifically, and you deny a website camera access, it doesn't see a computer with a camera. Then what? I guess it just falls back on the old one?
Same with my MacBook. It does have a camera, but I don't have to give any website permission to access it.
Just say no to this kind of shit. You might not be able to with Android, though I'm fairly certain you can. You might not be able to with Chrome, though I know now you can. But the way Chrome killed ad blocking for the most part? Yeah, they can do that with other privacy protections. Don't use Chrome.