In addition to the privacy concerns with native applications, they're almost always insecure. One thing that is nice about modern browsers is that (despite Safa

In addition to the privacy concerns with native applications, they're almost always insecure. One thing that is nice about modern browsers is that (despite Safari's leisurely update cycle) they are actually relatively secure, as far as software goes. Threats to the average user of Chrome are things like phishing, rather than RCE, and tab isolation keeps things from escalating out of control. Contrast that to the now ubiquitous conferencing software solutions, and it seems like every day there's some zero-day RCE vulnerability or other spooky exploit. If we needed to install and run a dozen different closed-source executables from BigCorp et al., I predict that we'd very soon go back to security dark-ages.