The browser paradigm may be the most open platform we have. I can go to any website, download whatever I want and not pay tax to some central authority. I can

The browser paradigm may be the most open platform we have. I can go to any website, download whatever I want and not pay tax to some central authority. I can inspect the dom, scripts run on my device, the network. Set adblockers and script filters. None of those freedoms are available on smartphone apps. As a dev you pay the trillion dollar mega corps, as a consumer you also pay to them. The app paradigm could have been as open as the web, but we voted with our dollars for a walled garden with 30% tax.