> EDIT: To be clear, the browser is a code distribution platform, just like the App Store. Not exactly the same, and the difference is important. An iOS app i

> EDIT: To be clear, the browser is a code distribution platform, just like the App Store. Not exactly the same, and the difference is important. An iOS app is an iOS app is an iOS app: every user gets the same app. Malicious updates to bonafide releases cannot be targeted to specific users and will be distributed to everybody. Same for playstore. A browser effectively requests an update, directly, every single time the app is started.† Updates can be targeted very precisely, both to a time and a user. Circumventing this difference is not a detail, and eliding that when talking about browsers, honestly, implies regular use. Including the behaviour described above. † An exception is a trick using web workers and github which appeared on HN a while back. That was an actual novice use for JS crypto.