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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 someon
by 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.