Google Chrome 104 is landing today. It features a lot of changes, including a Web Bluetooth API that Apple and Mozilla hate. According to the duo, this API will reduce security considerably.

Earlier this year, developers began rolling out the Web Bluetooth API, which is a foundational component of the evolving Web of Things, the application layer of the IoT. With Web Bluetooth, any ...

Web Bluetooth will expose more information about the user to the Internet, and the large monopolistic companies that serve as its gatekeepers will profit at the expense of our privacy.

Earlier this month, Chrome 104 arrived to the Stable channel with an updated Web Bluetooth API that faced a lot of criticism from both Apple and Mozilla for exposing fingerprinting surfaces that ...

Web Bluetooth API This is exactly what it sounds like - an API that allows web apps to interact with Bluetooth devices.

The Web Bluetooth support in Chrome 53 makes it possible to control your smart appliances from within a browser rather than relying on a smartphone app.

He is concerned that the Web Bluetooth API will be dealing with both personally identifiable information and providing information about a user's position, motions and movements.

Chrome 56 will also introduce Web Bluetooth, which will allow sites to directly interact with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices using the Web Bluetooth API.

Along with 56 security updates, this new version comes with quite a few goodies such as HTML5 by default, support for the Sticky position attribute, and the Web Bluetooth API.

In the frame of its tracking prevention policy, Apple recently communicated its current refusal to implement 16 web APIs, citing privacy concerns. Apple emphasized that the decision could be ...