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Web Bluetooth exclusionFilters option in requestDevice()

Category

Device

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 114)

Intent stage

None

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

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

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

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