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[–] krimson@lemmy.world 57 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah a website should not be able to tell where I am looking at or if my audio is muted or not.

But Bezos needs more money right, because he doesn't have enough yet.

[–] greyfrog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Blame the browsers for creating the APIs.

[–] anguo@piefed.ca 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] greyfrog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago

No, I mean they all decide to adopt this shit.

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

These tools can be used for good applications though. Why punish good developers when bad actors are the problem?

[–] greyfrog@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There is no valid need for this API.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social -2 points 10 hours ago

This API can be used to suggest users take breaks if they've been using a site for a long time.

The exact same API exists in desktop environments; it's just part of the progressive OS-ification of the web.

[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 3 points 23 hours ago

yah but the problem is that other streaming platforms exist, and a fair few streamers multi stream so...

jeff might not have thought this through.