Mozilla has labeled the Generic Sensor API as "Harmful". mozilla.github.io/standards-…

mozilla is increasingly becoming irrelevant, this obstructionist (exaggeratory paranoid) behavior being only part of it. I don't test my sites in FF anymore, and I don't even have it installed now. Interop with FF is no longer a priority for me.

This is a brutal, but honest, take. When I started receiving emails from Mozilla that look like Buzzfeed listicles, I realized there was a serious problem.

there are lots of things wrong with Mozilla the org, but I trust the engineers who write those standards positions.

here's why I don't trust it... these positions don't seem (from what I can read) to distinguish websites from installed web applications, with respect to harm risk. to me, that's an awfully short-sighted take.

Also generic sensors doesn't give you raw access to the sensors - which it sounds like in the std position. Lots of restrictions in place on when you have access, restrictions of frequency etc. This is much better than the existing API shipped by Moz

"permission prompts confuse users" I'd like to see the supporting evidence here, and I'm not being antagonistic, I honestly want to know more about this. I also wonder if this will still be true now that Apple is going consent-everything on the iPhone.

"This web app would like to access your device's accelerometer to _____. Accelerometers measure movement, motion and vibration." [ Allow? ] [ Disallow ]