Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns

I'm sad that this is necessary.

Most comments here seem to of the "Good no one should write a web page that accesses bluetooth and I don't care if you want to do that".

This is sad for me because I would like to be able to write web pages that talk to smart turbo trainers and other health devices.

Now you might say why not write a app to do that but personally I prefer accessing stuff from web pages.

I find apps restrictive as a user. For example there is no way to block ads in an app and often no way to zoom or select text.

Again you might be fine with that but I just wanted to offer an alternative opinion.

> ... web pages that talk to ... health devices ... there is no way to block ads in an app

Wait, what?? Why on earth would you use an app with ads for health devices?!?

Moreover, why on earth are you using apps with ads for anything?

Please, please, please, pay for your apps and games. Stop making everything an ad service. The race to the bottom in the web and mobile world is disturbing.

Would you want to pay for your house plumbing by being forced to watch an ad every time you shower? Think about how dystopian that sounds. There are even Black Mirror episodes on that.

On the privacy end of things, ads certainly aren't helping, but a pretty large number of even paid apps are happily vacuuming up data and sending them to the developer and often third parties (vendors of analytics/debugging platforms in particular). I tend to think of an app for most things as a loss of privacy and try to avoid using them when possible.