[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 185697] Implement Network Information API

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185697

--- Comment #5 from youenn fablet <youennf at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Justin Uberti from comment #4)
> +1, even having just "cellular" and "unknown" in connectionType would be
> extremely valuable in terms of being able to know if the user is likely on a
> metered connection.
> 
> If even this is seen as an unacceptable additional amount of bit of
> fingerprinting surface, we could require a user gesture (and this would
> still be valuable to most interested applications).

Heuristics could potentially be based on public IP addresses + device type to emulate cellular.
Also, in general, exposing cellular might be an issue, for instance MacOS devices using the cellular connection of iOS devices would have cellular=false.

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