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Google added "Motion and light sensors" permission controls to Chrome Canary recently so that users of the web browser may control the functionality.

Browser makers like Mozilla or Google add new functionality to their browsers regularly. New APIs, the Sensor API is just one example, add new functionality that sites and applications may make use of.

APIs may expose data to sites and services, and may even give sites control over functionality. Web browsers like Firefox or Chrome support permissions that give users control over these features.

Sensor permissions are available in Chrome Canary only right now; the Android version and the desktop version supports the option.

Canary is a development version of Google Chrome; it takes months usually before features land in stable versions of the Chrome browser.

Google added global and per-site Sensor access controls to the Chrome web browser which users of the web browser may use to control access to the Sensor API in the browser.

Access to Sensors is enabled by default.