- From: Marcos Cáceres via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:24:42 +0000
- To: public-device-apis-log@w3.org
The [Chrome usage stats](https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/2198) point to websites. All those websites embed YouTube videos, and those videos embed the script: https://www.youtube.com/s/player/0bb3b162/player_ias.vflset/en_US/base.js Search for getBattery() there. YouTube is a tracking widget. > preferably well-known ones) that uses the Battery Status API for tracking? Any website that embeds YouTube embeds a tracker. So basically pick any website you like, if it has a YouTube video, it has a reference to the API. Now, deciphering what the base.js script does is a different story, because that code is obfuscated... but I bet ya if Chrome turns on Permissions Policy the usage of this API drops to 0. Now, as a counter, would be nice to see one popular site using this in a legitimate (non-tracking) fashion - and in a way that benefits users at all. -- GitHub Notification of comment by marcoscaceres Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dap-charter/issues/98#issuecomment-664394508 using your GitHub account
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