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Native apps are the new desktop apps. OK for gaming, overkill and gaping privacy hole for everything else.

• sidlls 9y ago
  Because web apps are certainly very good at protecting privacy.
  • dccoolgai 9y ago
    "To read news on this site, you must give permission to: Your phone Your camera All your files " I've never seen that on a web app, but it's de rigeur for native mobile.
    • sidlls 9y ago
      Meanwhile webapps can potentially report on everything you do that touches your browser and at most you might have to acknowledge a cookie stored on your browser. News readers requesting that level of access is bad, but at least they tell you when they're invading your privacy.