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> People moan about how it's slow No, I moan about how it's an abuse of my privacy, an abuse of my security & an abuse of the web itself. Web pages which use
by eadmund 9y ago
> People moan about how it's slow
No, I moan about how it's an abuse of my privacy, an abuse of my security & an abuse of the web itself.
Web pages which use JavaScript enable all sorts of malicious nastiness which plain websites do not. They are impossible to properly secure (in that I get a new version every time I open it up). They are not what the WWW was meant to be.
No thank you.
- p3llin0r3 9y agoOK so how is a native application different? You can do the exact same things in a native app.
- eadmund 9y agoBecause it's possible for a native app to be secure. I can audit it, pay someone else to audit it for me or rely on someone's free audit. I download the code once, and run it many times, rather than downloading a fresh version each time, and hoping the provider hasn't tampered with it. I can even run it offline, on an airgapped computer. And a native app is using the APIs of its platform as intended, rather than violating its entire raison d'être, like single page apps violate the Web.