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		gcp on Jan 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Malicious Use of the HTML5 Vibrate API This gets obnoxious very quickly. Current Firefox excludes Flash from click-to-play because user were outraged against it. And note that Flash can do all of these things.

thrillgore on Jan 10, 2014 [–]

Compared to having your phone vibrate ad nauseum for no determinable reason whatsoever?

gcp on Jan 10, 2014 | [–]

Look at this way: pages using Vibrate won't necessarily obnoxiously vibrate for no determinable reason.

But all of them will pop up the permission prompt.

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