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Are you seriously arguing that the web does a better job of respecting user privacy than desktop and mobile operating systems?
by criddell 4y ago
Are you seriously arguing that the web does a better job of respecting user privacy than desktop and mobile operating systems?
- anticrymactic 4y agoYes that is what he's saying. It's also the truth and the only reason every social media forced you to use the app.
- dymk 4y agoNo, that's not why. It's because it's hard to make a performant Facebook webapp with all the bells and whistles.
- manigandham 4y agoYes. Mobile and desktop apps have much more data leakage because they can store more data for longer and have much more APIs to use. A mobile app provides 100x more detailed data with more persistence than a website ever could. This is well understood by the adtech industry and is why so many websites push apps in the first place.
- criddell 4y agoHistorically I think you are right but I'm not so sure it's still the case. Do you think an iPhone with the tracking blocker engaged is still a richer source of data than the web app on an iPhone? Facebook claims that Apple's privacy protections cost them $10 billion of revenue the first year.
- manigandham 4y agoYes. Apple's changes have reduced tracking in both modalities but webapps are far more constricted by Safari than native apps.
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoYes. When i close the webpage, that page is gone. It's not running in the background silently collecting data. With a properly configured browser (a few extensions, no third party cookies, or even separate containers), it doesn't have much data to gather in the first place.