Request for Brave Position on Idle Detection API

[manikandancode]

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4590256452009984
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=878979
https://wicg.github.io/idle-detection/

Firefox: Harmful
Safari: Negative

[Tonev]

Developers have disabled the Idle Detection API via brave/brave-core#7054, which answers your question about Brave's position.

[pes10k]

thank you @Tonev ! Yes, its been disabled in Brave for almost a year now. We are not fans

[pes10k]

I'm going to close this though @manikandancode if it would be helpful for me / us / Brave to echo our concerns with the API somewhere else, just let us know where

[pachainti]

thank you @Tonev ! Yes, its been disabled in Brave for almost a year now. We are not fans

Hi,
even it is merged, the API is still enabled as default on release, beta and nightly.

[jonathansampson]

@pachainti Can you go to https://idle-detection.glitch.me/ and let me know what you see written at the top? You should see "Your browser doesn't support the Idle Detection API" in Brave.

From what I can tell, the API itself is disconnected in Brave, but the Settings page still enumerates it as a supported feature (which it is not). Apologies for the confusion; we'll be sure to resolve this issue.