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a bit unnerving. why wouldn't some ad-tracking mechanism that's part of some apps simply collect everything it can and radio it back home? btw, can this be con

• anon1385 11y ago
  >why wouldn't some ad-tracking mechanism that's part of some apps simply collect everything it can and radio it back home? Because the vast majority of GUI software installed on Linux comes from curated app stores (or 'repos' as they used to be called). It's also mostly written without any expectation of making money. Web apps being sandboxed is a plus point for users in the sense that it increases security (on the local machine - the web app vendor is still free to do whatever they want with your data). It's also a negative since it means any code you want to execute on your own hardware has to be approved by the browser vendors (web standards don't really provide any user controlled way to break out of the sandbox[1]). The standards generally operate in a lowest-common-denominator way such that the vendor of a browser your don't even use can prevent you from utilising your own hardware by stalling web standards indefinitely. [1] the old plugins interfaces like NPAPI do exist, but are being phased out and aren't supported at all on web-only platforms like ChromeOS and FirefoxOS, as far as I'm aware