All of these APIs are going to be very reliable fingerprinting opportunities, especially in combination. Keep that in mind when you think it’s going to be great for your web browser to also be a full featured application runtime.
Don't hold back the one open platform there is (the web) with fingerprinting concerns when its competition (mobile platforms) require an identity to use them.
I’m supposing that the problem is that the web browser is the universal platform for all applications. There’s a benefit for information consumption (web pages) being separate from functionality rich and infinitely fingerprintable “native capabilities”
I've been using the web since 1994. It's always been an application platform and anyone who says otherwise is misremembering.
> I’m supposing that the problem is that the web browser is the universal platform for all applications
This is a feature not a problem.
> There’s a benefit for information consumption (web pages) being separate from functionality rich and infinitely fingerprintable “native capabilities”
What exactly is that benefit supposed to be? If you want a read-only publishing platform, put PDFs on a FTP site.
