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Firefox continues its commitment to privacy with this quiet change found in the developer notes [0]: > For privacy reasons, both BatteryManager.chargingTime an

Firefox continues its commitment to privacy with this quiet change found in the developer notes [0]: > For privacy reasons, both BatteryManager.chargingTime and BatteryManager.dischargingTime now round the returned value to the closest 15 minutes (bug 1292655). See [1] for an explanation of how the battery status API can be used to track you. [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/51#Changes_for_Web_developers https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/51#Chan... [1] https://www.hackread.com/smartphone-laptop-battery-invading-privacy/ https://www.hackread.com/smartphone-laptop-battery-invading-...

r3bl 10y ago
I've created a simple website that showcases the Battery API if you wanna see if you're affected or not: https://r3bl.me/battery/ https://r3bl.me/battery/ Done locally in JavaScript, info is not stored anyway (and, of course, you can see that for yourself here: https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/battery https://github.com/aleksandar-todorovic/battery).
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pkd 10y ago
It's interesting that you mention privacy because I filed a bug report[1] just yesterday that is a potential privacy issue. Basically Firefox no longer allows you to deny websites access to camera individually. This means that while on a voice call on messenger.com, the camera is still always on, even if the video is "muted". [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1333186 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1333186