Its like if you needed to download a new web browser for every website you visit, absolutely ridiculous.
You say it like it's a bad thing.
>Its like if you needed to download a new web browser for every website you visit, absolutely ridiculous.
I really do hope websites do not try and enumerate Bluetooth on their right own. I know I'd never enable access to Bluetooth to a browser.
Actually the web is an OS: it has api for gui, for persistent data, for networking, for all kind of periphericals (gpu, gps, bluetooth) ... The problem you're raising (which i agree with) is that we already have an OS and we'd like to use that one.
I think this is actually superior to the security offered by mobile apps on android, which can enumerate bluetooth devices as soon as they have bluetooth permission.
Are you suggesting that I don't need to download anything to view a website ? I beg to differ.
If you check the article, namely the photo of the phone you can see there's a browser opened from localhost, so something must have been downloaded on the phone.
As opposed to downloading 1 app per vendor/product, each of which has its own attack surface and special way of doing things that may or may not support your specific hardware implementation.
Yeah there is, it’s called screen.