The thread model is different. On PCs, there was no fast/commercialized enough internet to worry much about spyware. What good is fingerprinting if you can't

The thread model is different. On PCs, there was no fast/commercialized enough internet to worry much about spyware. What good is fingerprinting if you can't send the result to a server. What good is tracking every individual if nobody will pay you to send ads? Notice in the same way how good old IE6 with ActiveX was horribly insecure, but it didn't matter as much until the Internet itself became an ad-infested environment. Desktop software could theoretically do a lot of harm in the past, but there was no point apart from childish damage. Viruses were more a kind of graffiti. Ransomware did not exist, there was no way to pay the ransom. I don't like how e.g. Wayland pulls up high walls between software. Applications work best when they can easily share data, including robotic automatization, keylogging and screen recording. But it seems that innocent time is simply gone. Even major software companies shamelessly piss in the well by deploying trackers and malware together with their software. So I hate to say it but the wayland devs are probably doing it right.