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It's really sad that the Web, full of terrible JavaScript and tracking, is being pitched as the safer alternative to applications. Keep in mind that unless you
by bathtub365 6y ago
It's really sad that the Web, full of terrible JavaScript and tracking, is being pitched as the safer alternative to applications. Keep in mind that unless you somehow run a version of a Web application locally, every interaction with it is traceable. Advertising parasites have eaten the world.
- rohan1024 6y ago>every action with website is traceable. Traceable but not the kind of access an app has. Traceability can be spoofed not the data that app is reading from your device. No website is ever going to ask your contacts permission to proceed further while their are tonne of apps that won't let you use app if you reject that permission. For example, GPay in India needs freaking location permission. God knows what it does with that data.
- bathtub365 6y agoWebsites request access to my location data constantly. They also likely have some semblance of where I am even before they ask due to IP geolocation. If I'm using an offline application this transaction wouldn't be happening. My point isn't that either apps or the Web are better. It's a more fundamental issue of software I use constantly talking to systems I don't control. It just so happens that the Web only exists if I accept that this will happen. Applications can exist even if I don't.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoThese apps are copying clipboard content while you are using other apps. No website can do that for another website.
- bathtub365 6y agoYes, but also, no website can exist without knowing how I'm interacting with it.
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- coronadisaster 6y agoIt's because of the way Google and Apple implemented the mobile applications (apps can do everything the web can do and worst).