> The web has tracking everywhere and often uses a lot of CPU, memory, battery, and bandwidth. The alternative to using something like Discord on the web is no

> The web has tracking everywhere and often uses a lot of CPU, memory, battery, and bandwidth. The alternative to using something like Discord on the web is not a well-optimized desktop app that is somehow more respectful w.r.t. tracking than the web version. Same goes for Slack, Zoom, etc. It will still use lots of CPU and memory, and now in addition to tracking you with the techniques available to it in the browser sandbox, it will gleefully list the processes running on your machine, rifle through your files, try to get itself to start up automatically on login, try to get it so that when you "close" it it's still running in the system tray, and generally just make itself at home. Desktop apps written by devs who first learned to write desktop apps are better than web apps. Desktop apps written by web developers are like demons that have broken through the summoning circle. The browser sandbox doesn't protect you from fingerprinting techniques and the ensuing tracking, but it protects you from a whole lot of other stuff. Take away the sandbox and the shameless data vampires get anything they want.