Re: [wake-lock] Introduce rate limiting to prevent wake lock abuse (#124)

> The side-channel based on the OS-level lock allows communication not only between different documents, but also between completely separate browser profiles or User Agents running on the same device. This may allow identifying users who rely on such compartamentalization for privacy.

The `active` should only show the state of a given `WakeLock` object. So even if a existing wake lock is active of the same type, the new object will only report active after it has been activated. UAs can delay resolving the promise to hide whether a wake lock was already active.

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