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What does your feature entail? What is it for? How will it affect existing workflows or user experience?
Option-clicking or selecting "Download Linked File" from a link's context menu should not require granting downloads permission to a site, and even if downloads are manually disabled in a site's settings a manual download action should override that setting.

Manually initiating a download should not require granting the website permission to initiate downloads automatically, and that setting is to allow/prevent a website from automatically triggering downloads, so if the user manually, explicitly initiates a download that should override that setting.

What are the exact ways that you see a user using your proposed feature? Please go into as much detail as possible, and provide examples of how other browsers/apps implement this feature, if applicable. If your feature suggestion adds on to an existing feature, how would it work into it to extend its usefulness?
This is the workflow that should not trigger the confirmation prompt, and should still be possible even if a website's downloads setting is set to 'Deny':

  • Vlad replied to this.

    Vlad Yep, Safari lets you download without confirmation if it's via the context menu or option-clicking. Here's a screen recording:

    (I edited the DOM to add that second button that just does window.location.href=window.URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(['test'],{type:'application/x-unknown'})) on click to initiate a download)

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