Re: Intent to unship: navigator.getBattery (Battery Status API)

2016-11-02 Thread Chris Peterson
WebKit implemented the battery API, though Safari didn't expose the API to web content. Yesterday the WebKit team proposed removing the API, too: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164213 https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2016-October/028468.html On 10/31/2016 1:24 AM, Chris

Re: Intent to unship: navigator.getBattery (Battery Status API)

2016-11-02 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Speaking on behalf of the privacy community (writ large and vaguely) thank you very much for this! best, Joe On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Chris Peterson wrote: > As proposed earlier on the dev-platform list [1], I made the Battery > Status API chrome-only in Firefox Nightly 52 (bug 1313580

Re: Intent to unship: navigator.getBattery (Battery Status API)

2016-10-31 Thread Chris Peterson
On 10/31/2016 11:23 AM, nicjan...@gmail.com wrote: Boomerang is an open-source library [1] for collecting performance telemetry. You're correct that it currently captures the battery level and other device characteristics. While Boomerang was not designed for the purpose of fingerprinting us

Re: Intent to unship: navigator.getBattery (Battery Status API)

2016-10-31 Thread nicjansma
Boomerang is an open-source library [1] for collecting performance telemetry. You're correct that it currently captures the battery level and other device characteristics. While Boomerang was not designed for the purpose of fingerprinting users, it captures many performance metrics and page c