I need to take a selfie to send online. This is to prove I'm the person who submitted other identification documents to a company. They apparently require that the selfie from the webcam be uploaded directly to their website (not saved to the Mac then uploaded); I can't imagine how to do that; any help?
Thanks -
MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.15
You should get a message when you are FireFox and a website is trying to use the Camera. If you click on Allow you have to add it to the Privacy pane.
Thu sit appears that the site is really asking to use your camera.
I hav Chrome, Microsoft Teams, and a recording app allowed. For native Apple apps like Photo Booth, you do not have to allow them and they do not appear in thr pane.
You should get a message when you are FireFox and a website is trying to use the Camera. If you click on Allow you have to add it to the Privacy pane.
Thu sit appears that the site is really asking to use your camera.
I hav Chrome, Microsoft Teams, and a recording app allowed. For native Apple apps like Photo Booth, you do not have to allow them and they do not appear in thr pane.
rustic39 wrote:
I need to take a selfie to send online. This is to prove I'm the person who submitted other identification documents to a company. They apparently require that the selfie from the webcam be uploaded directly to their website (not saved to the Mac then uploaded); I can't imagine how to do that; any help?
Thanks -
? what company...
do you have a link to the interface
OK - I went there, unlocked the pref to allow changes, clicked on camera, but there doesn't seem to be a way to add the browser (Firefox) to the apps allowed to use it. Usually there'd be a +/- option to edit the list.
It is 2021. You can’t just say “website” or “Firefox”. Those are just words without any meaning. They don’t tell us what website it is, what browsers or operating systems that site supports. “Firefox” doesn’t tell us what version you have, what extensions are installed, what security settings are enabled, what ad-blockers are running. Any single one of those aspects, or your unique combination thereof, could break this.
If you need to interface to the hardware and operating system, it would be best to use Safari. If you have any extensions or ad-blockers installed, you will need to disable them. Once you complete this verification step, you can then use the site with whatever browser you want.
However, I strongly encourage you not to use this site. You are opening yourself up to having your image used in marketing, AI databases, crime databases, stock art, identity theft, and literally more different types of fraud than I can even think of. This is bad, bad news.
Here's an image of the page: tells me to enable the webcam. Only way I know of is to launch Photo Booth, but there's no option to load the resulting selfie to the requesting site.
That can only be done if the website includes a feature that provides direct uploads. There should be a button or some other feature to take the picture.
Go to System Preferences>Security & Privacy>Privacy>Camera in left pane. In the right pane ss the browser you are using checked off to use the camera?
Thanks - I finally worked through Firefox prefs, the planets aligned, and it let me take a screen selfie. I appreciate your help - you definitely set me in the right direction.
Taking selfie for website
