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What is Iridium's position on the "Idle Detection API" had implemented in the latest Chromium? #343

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Shitennouji opened this issue Oct 7, 2021 · 0 comments

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Shitennouji commented Oct 7, 2021

Google Chrome has implemented a new feature in version 94, the Idle Detection API, and has enabled it by default.
https://web.dev/idle-detection/
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=878979

This new feature was criticized by Mozilla and Apple for “concerns that it could potentially create privacy violations”.
mozilla/standards-positions#453
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-October/031562.html

In the Chromium family of browser vendors to which the new feature applies, Brave has decided to align itself with Mozilla and Apple and refuse to implement the “Idle Detection API” in question.
Brave has added a program for background processing to completely disable the “Idle Detection API” to be implemented.
brave/brave-core#7054
What Chromium features are removed for privacy/security reasons?
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviations-from-Chromium-(features-we-disable-or-remove)#what-chromium-features-are-removed-for-privacysecurity-reasons

Since Ungoogled-Chromium has new features already implemented and enabled, users have expressed their concerns.
ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#1659
https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/pwkkbj/chrome_94_released_with_controversial_idle/

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