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So many such issues could be easily mitigated if we just moved away from apps to PWAs/Web apps with better support from mobile vendors for the push api, camera,
by superasn 5y ago
So many such issues could be easily mitigated if we just moved away from apps to PWAs/Web apps with better support from mobile vendors for the push api, camera, etc - but the powers that be (Apple, Google, Microsoft) and also the sites (Reddit, Amazon, etc) want to move in the opposite direction because who cares about security and users when apps bring in the moolah.
As a matter of fact sometimes the websites are so much better too, like Amazon, which doesn't even have a "Find.." function in the app. I really wish we could done be with these apps and everything just ran in the browser, except maybe apps that need some low level api or something.
- mrtksn 5y agoAren't PWA's vulnerable to browser extension attacks?
- antihero 5y agoIn order to compete with native apps the APIs would have to grow and thus the attack surface would also grow
- secondcoming 5y agoSuch issues could be mitigated if Android didn't let it happen. It was pretty much impossible for this to happen with Symbian so there's really no excuse (maybe that's part of the reason it died)
- seanw444 5y agoAnd then there are those of us that hate that everything is made with Electron these days, so I say thank God they're not doing this.