Web Bluetooth exclusionFilters option in requestDevice()

Category: Device
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 114)
Intent stage: None

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: No, because browser picker implementation is implemented outside of Blink and so isn’t testable fully by web-platform-tests.

Summary

The "exclusionFilters" option in navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice() allows web developers to exclude some devices from the browser picker. It can be used to exclude devices that match a broader filter but are unsupported.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/#ref-for-dom-requestdeviceoptions-exclusionfilters
Firefox: No signal — Both Gecko and WebKit are unlikely to object to this feature specifically, but object to the overall Web Bluetooth API as a whole, hence it doesn't make sense to bug them with specific questions on this.
Safari: No signal — Both Gecko and WebKit are unlikely to object to this feature specifically, but object to the overall Web Bluetooth API as a whole, hence it doesn't make sense to bug them with specific questions on this.
Web developers: Positive — https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75815353/web-bluetooth-want-to-exclude-certain-devices-when-using-navigator-bluetooth-re
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1427977

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=web-bluetooth-exclusionfilters-option-in-requestdevice
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Web%20Bluetooth%20exclusionFilters%20option%20in%20requestDevice()
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Web%20Bluetooth%20exclusionFilters%20option%20in%20requestDevice()
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Web%20Bluetooth%20exclusionFilters%20option%20in%20requestDevice()

Docs: https://developer.chrome.com/articles/bluetooth/#exclusion-filters

Samples: https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/web-bluetooth/exclusion-filters.html

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