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Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by gruez on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:32PM (#23253636)
>Battery status? It could be useful to know if the PC is connected to a power source and the level of the battery [...]

But when was it ever implemented in the wild? This applies to most of these "features". There's a bunch of theoretical use cases, but there's pretty much 0 use for it in reality, and even if there's significant use, it's used more for fingerprinting.

Re:In protest of the web{*} bulldozer, a response to websock... by MayeulC on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:27AM (#23256070)
IIRC, that feature might have been introduced by Mozilla for FirefoxOS? A lot of sensor APIs were.

The idea isn't bad, but it should probably be guarded behind some permissions...