Post #2905108
2025-01-14 08:39 UTC
@wavefunction@mastodon.sdf.org @danirabbit@mastodon.online
The cookies and trackers are not an inherent part of a webapp, they are the creators choice and similar things can be and are implemented in many native apps.
A native app can do anything on your system since it is a binary file, there's little measure in stopping it from doing so.
But web apps need explicit permissions and are abstracted away from your OS and hardware much more.
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@gryzor@androiddev.social 2025-01-14 14:11
@alavi@techhub.social @wavefunction@mastodon.sdf.org @danirabbit@mastodon.online "there's little measure in what it can do" this is nonsense. Both iOS and Android put out a *lot* of sense in what your app can and can't do. Yes you can go ways around the OS and APIs to circumvent these things, but it would be all over the news if all apps easily did this. With the level of API access required to do what modern apps need to do, a PWA could easily do the same things you claim "a binary" can do. WebApps have a place. Not all apps fit there.