I don't get it. Native apps are even worse. At least websites are ephemeral and you can pop open a dev console and inspect/block the traffic. Native apps ask

I don't get it. Native apps are even worse. At least websites are ephemeral and you can pop open a dev console and inspect/block the traffic. Native apps ask you for permissions and then can access those features for as long as they're installed on your phone, often in the background. Ever see what kind of data Google has on the average Android user? It knows their exact route through town every day. It's crazy. Maybe the world would be a better place if 1999 MapQuest was still the most advanced app on the internet. But your fixation on Javascript in this thread sounds out of touch with the more inconvenient truths of modern technology, probably because Javascript happens to be the one you can live without.