Add Web Bluetooth (harmful) #364
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This is a straight extrapolation from WebUSB. I found very little in the proposal to suggest that Web Bluetooth was any better, and the lack of the basic protections in WebUSB make it clearly worse. Closes mozilla#95.
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Co-authored-by: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
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Just to set the record straight and avoid confusing developers, WebUSB does not require active consent from the device. That restriction was discussed in WICG/webusb#49 and removed based on feedback from @dbaron (on behalf of the TAG) and developers. |
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This is a straight extrapolation from WebUSB. I found very little in
the proposal to suggest that Web Bluetooth was any better, and the lack
of the device consent protections in WebUSB make it clearly worse.
cc @travisleithead.
Closes #95.