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They cause my phone to vibrate "thanks to" the Vibration API [0]. A critical component of the Web Platform ecosystem apparently.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...

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In time this annoyance API will be seen as equivalent to the blink [1] tag.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element

Seems very inappropriate to even allow this. It would be like allowing the page to activate your flashlight. Wtf... shouldn't allow hardware access like that.

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