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Because when the duopoly of Apple and Google want to make money through their app stores, they don't want developers not going through their stores, and thus th
by cercatrova 4y ago
Because when the duopoly of Apple and Google want to make money through their app stores, they don't want developers not going through their stores, and thus they'll restrict PWAs as much as possible under the guise of privacy. How else are they going to extract their pound of flesh?
- leeoniya 4y agothis. you cannot adblock in native apps like you can in web apps. and web apps can never be as invasive. no matter how good PWAs will be for the consumers, they lack all the user-hostile things producers expect to be able to do. this is why it will never happen, sadly.
- scarface74 4y agoYou can’t “ad block” with the most popular websites either that have “native ads” like FB.
- leeoniya 4y agoyou can at least attempt it, via NLP, etc. it's still DOM at the end of the day.
- ohCh6zos 4y agoI do all kinds of adblock in native executables, but mostly blocking places that host ads in my firewall.
- scarface74 4y agoHow many apps do you use right now that could be web apps do the developers actually accept payments through the App Store? It came out in the Epic trial that 80% of App Store revenue comes from games and in app purchases.