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Stretching the definition of an antique "meme", but here's an image from 2016 about a message board gag in 2006. (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That depends on your definition of safe. Everyone wants to be a data broker these days, and the amount of data that can be gleaned from basic app permissions is startling. Not to mention that it's just annoying. We already solved this "an app for everything" problem 40 years ago with the HTML/CSS/W3C standards and a regular old web browser. 90% of the apps out there could be websites, and the world would be better if they were. But having an app gives the publisher a lot more control over what they can do, how they can spam you, and what they can scrape, and that's why everyone has their own stupid apps now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

We already solved this "an app for everything" problem 40 years ago with the HTML/CSS/W3C standards and a regular old web browser.

God, please, no. There's a really good reason WebOS experiments all, universally, failed, and it isn't because Big Brother wants your data. They can get it through web apps just fine, anyway. No, the reason is because web apps suck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You are very wrong about them not wanting your data, and the tracking/snooping capabilities of an app vs a browser.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Did I say they don't want your data? I said they can get it through web apps too.

Doveryay, no proveryay, except it should be don't trust, and verify. Web app or native.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Isn't Discord and Microsoft Teams just a webapp in Electron? My main grievance is that Chrome on Android doesn't hide that URL bar no matter what