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Yep. There are some ridiculous web APIs out there that expose all sorts of things you'd think should remain private. Take the Battery Status API for example [1].

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Battery_Sta...

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IIRC, that one and a number of other lower-level “WTF” APIs were introduced for Firefox OS. They made a little more sense in the context of providing an interface for mobile phones using the browser stack.

This would be useful in WebXR (given opt-in)

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