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If the choice is between a webapp and a native app the webapp is going to give users more control and a choice of the platform they want to view it on. I may b
by Lio 6y ago
If the choice is between a webapp and a native app the webapp is going to give users more control and a choice of the platform they want to view it on.
I may be in a minority but I still want to run on desktop linux with an ad blocker or vimium.
Webapps give me that. Native apps don’t.
- criddell 6y agoAn ad-blocker in the form of something like a pi-hole should work with native apps, no?
- hombre_fatal 6y agoOnly when you are connected through your pi-hole. Also, when pi-hole and mitmproxy are our only options to know what our device is doing and to block things we don't want, then we've lost. The web browser is basically the last bastion of control that we have with its devbar and networkbar and all. Blocking content/requests is something our devices should be able to do themselves. It's a miracle of history that we have the browser, and it's hard to imagine us having it had it been invented today. We need to fight to keep it, not dismiss it with "ugh web tech amirite?" while we regress to native app black boxes as our only option.
- criddell 6y agoA pi hole protects your whole network. What you are asking for sounds more like a traditional firewall that I think every computer still supports.
- dependenttypes 6y ago> the webapp is going to give users more control You can't modify the webapp nor can you refuse to update it.
- Lio 6y agoOf course you can modify the webapp. You are running the source code in your browser. Even if it’s minimised you can still modify it.