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Re:Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a ... by Andrews54757 on Saturday November 25, 2023 @02:33PM (#38415942)

Yep. There are some ridiculous web APIs out there that expose all sorts of things you'd think should remain private. Take the Battery Status API for example [1].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...

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Re:Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a ... by geoelectric on Saturday November 25, 2023 @03:46PM (#38416544)

IIRC, that one and a number of other lower-level “WTF” APIs were introduced for Firefox OS. They made a little more sense in the context of providing an interface for mobile phones using the browser stack.

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Re:Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a ... by david_allison on Saturday November 25, 2023 @02:51PM (#38416116)

This would be useful in WebXR (given opt-in)

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