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[-] magnue@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

I found it interesting that it knows my battery level and current orientation of the phone.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

I can understand the latter since it might want to render differently, but why does it need to know the battery level?

[-] slampisko@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Potentially to activate battery-saving features? Like AMOLED-black mode if your battery is <15 % or something (and your screen is AMOLED)

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

Shouldn't that be the provenance of the device itself though. My phone already allows me to set a threshold when it should go to night mode for example. The system can tell the browser to switch rendering to night mode. There's no real reason for the browser then to report to the site.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

So that Uber will charge you a higher rate when the battery is low

I don't even know it it's /s anymore

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

certainly how making your battery level available to apps is getting used I'm sure

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 weeks ago

On Firefox android both the battery level and graphics card information were not available. But it was described as another data point regardless.

[-] MML@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

It got my phone's orientation wrong

[-] magnue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago
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