On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 4:17:21 PM UTC+1, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 11/29/16 2:36 AM, JP de Vries wrote: > > Here's a real world use case: > > https://github.com/jpdevries/mab-recommendations/blob/low-battery/proposed/low-battery.md#-responding-to-battery-levels > > This is the theoretical use case, yes. Is anyone actually doing this in > practice, though? The link is to a recommendation document saying that > people _should_ do this... > > > I understand the privacy concerns, but why can't these be handled similar > > to the Geolocation API? Ask permission to use / user opts in. > > Because prompting users is generally an antipattern. If, as a user, you > got a battery API prompt on every single page (because the trackers on > it were trying to use it), what would be your reaction? > > -Boris
> Is anyone actually doing this in practice, though? I'm not sure. > Because prompting users is generally an antipattern. If, as a user, you got a battery API prompt on every single page (because the trackers on it were trying to use it), what would be your reaction? That would be super annoying. I was thinking more of a click Respond to Battery Levels button then approve pattern. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
