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Nope. I will always choose a web experience over a native. It's just plain safer. Nothing to install on device. Less likely to have malware to track everything.

by dalore 7y ago

Nope. I will always choose a web experience over a native. It's just plain safer. Nothing to install on device. Less likely to have malware to track everything. Native is not just plain better.

kovac 7y ago
It's going to be a little tricky to define "safe" once everything goes online. Internet is getting more and more governed by a few different players. "Less likely to ... track everything" hmm.
lovetocode 7y ago
No offense but your argument holds no water. Unless your dumb enough to root your phone then the App Store is fairly safe to use. Do you not install software on your personal computer?
jcelerier 7y ago
in practice i'm pretty sure the web things i'm using are tracking me much more than any of the native apps i've ever used. I remember the outcry whenever someone would find out that $native app would send some weird packets over wireshark - and even then, it's been 10 years since windows started asking for permissions for software to open a socket so you can't really miss it if it tracks you. Also native apps don't have ads (afaik, never saw one except windows 10's shell but then I use 99% libre software), and I can stay at version 1.5 of the native app if it works better for me while this is impossible with web apps.
- sarakayakomzin 7y ago
  > in practice i'm pretty sure the web apps i'm using are much more tracking me than any of the native apps i've ever used. ...because you're not seeing a link in your dev console to google analytics? You're giving a company a trove of information about your local device that can't be easily found and somehow you find that to be "less" invasive? that's a real spicy take.
- pjmlp 7y ago
  > Also native apps don't have ads (afaik, never saw one except windows 10's shell but then I use 99% libre software), and I can stay at version 1.5 of the native app if it works better for me while this is impossible with web apps. Not much of an Android user, I gather. By the way, recent versions of Android allow apps to self update.
  - jcelerier 7y ago
    > Not much of an Android user, I gather. mobile apps outside of native Jolla ones make my blood boil faster that I can turn those wretched devices off, so, yes, I try to limit my interactions with those to a minimum.
    - pjmlp 7y ago
      Oh, an actual Jolla user!
      - jcelerier 7y ago
        Sadly my Jolla phone died down last year and my life is filled with pain since
  - EvilEy3 7y ago
    Only with users consent.

by dalore 7y ago

Nope. I will always choose a web experience over a native. It's just plain safer. Nothing to install on device. Less likely to have malware to track everything. Native is not just plain better.

kovac 7y ago

It's going to be a little tricky to define "safe" once everything goes online. Internet is getting more and more governed by a few different players. "Less likely to ... track everything" hmm.

lovetocode 7y ago

No offense but your argument holds no water. Unless your dumb enough to root your phone then the App Store is fairly safe to use. Do you not install software on your personal computer?

jcelerier 7y ago

in practice i'm pretty sure the web things i'm using are tracking me much more than any of the native apps i've ever used. I remember the outcry whenever someone would find out that $native app would send some weird packets over wireshark - and even then, it's been 10 years since windows started asking for permissions for software to open a socket so you can't really miss it if it tracks you. Also native apps don't have ads (afaik, never saw one except windows 10's shell but then I use 99% libre software), and I can stay at version 1.5 of the native app if it works better for me while this is impossible with web apps.

sarakayakomzin 7y ago
> in practice i'm pretty sure the web apps i'm using are much more tracking me than any of the native apps i've ever used. ...because you're not seeing a link in your dev console to google analytics? You're giving a company a trove of information about your local device that can't be easily found and somehow you find that to be "less" invasive? that's a real spicy take.
pjmlp 7y ago
> Also native apps don't have ads (afaik, never saw one except windows 10's shell but then I use 99% libre software), and I can stay at version 1.5 of the native app if it works better for me while this is impossible with web apps. Not much of an Android user, I gather. By the way, recent versions of Android allow apps to self update.
- jcelerier 7y ago
  > Not much of an Android user, I gather. mobile apps outside of native Jolla ones make my blood boil faster that I can turn those wretched devices off, so, yes, I try to limit my interactions with those to a minimum.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Oh, an actual Jolla user!
    - jcelerier 7y ago
      Sadly my Jolla phone died down last year and my life is filled with pain since
- EvilEy3 7y ago
  Only with users consent.