Re: no longer possible to detect battery presence? RE: Battery API in Last Call from Rob Crowther on 2011-12-02 (public-device-apis@w3.org from December 2011)

From: Rob Crowther <robertc@boogdesign.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:10:15 +0000
To: public-device-apis@w3.org
Message-ID: <4ED81767.7050203@boogdesign.com>

On 01/12/11 23:50, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> It is fully correlated with the UA string, so it provides no
> additional information beyond what has already been exposed for over a
> decade.
>
The UA string is easily modified, if you're that privacy concious.  How 
much useful information can device APIs provide without allowing any 
fingerprinting?

Rob

Received on Friday, 2 December 2011 00:10:57 UTC