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Always wondered why websites need to know about my battery status


Websites could use it to implement less power consuming behavior when you are low on power, e.g. defaulting to run an expensive computation when requested instead of automatically.

Ignoring browser fingerprinting, it seems like most of these signals could be used to implement some feature benefiting the user.


Oh were we naive ...


If they are too aggressive with their bitcoin mining, you might not come back.




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