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Re:Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly by hobobaggins on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:12PM (#38850228)
Is BLE a PWA requirement? I think they explained their position pretty well here, regardless of whether I agree:

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#iss...

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Re:Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly by evilduck on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:05PM (#38850593)
PWA requirements are always whatever it currently can't do. There's never been a singular tech term more plagued by moving goalposts.
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Re:Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly by ProcNetDev on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:13PM (#38850656)
For my use case, yes BLE is a hard requirement.

Their example of hijacking a BLE keyboard to get passwords seems a bit farcical. I would love to see a PoC of that attack. The API has been available in Chrome for quite a while. I don't think it has been a large attack vector.

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Re:Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly by halostatue on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:10AM (#38850978)
All the more reason to use Safari or Firefox, since Chrome is doing something that I don't want any browser to have. (Whenever I install Chrome, I go through and turn off all of the stupid stuff that chrome should never have like web midi, webscsi, webble, etc.)
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