Comment by Sayrus

5 years ago

This is definitely going to be downvoted.

Isn't App store apps (Not reserved to Apple's one, this also works for Google, Microsoft and many others) untrusted code too? It runs with even more privileges than your browser's code and have access to more fingerprinting information if that's what it is going to do.

As far as I see it, a PWA with these permissions has less privacy risks than a native application I can find on a store. I'd really like to understand how installing an app is not an issue but having the access from the browser is. Is it simply the permission framework that is broken and you don't trust it to not leak information when the API is disabled?

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otterley  5 years ago

Isn't App store apps (Not reserved to Apple's one, this also works for Google, Microsoft and many others) untrusted code too?

Apple puts every submitted application through an enormous battery of automated (and sometimes manual) tests and disassembly to look for malicious or non-permitted behavior before publishing apps to the App Store. They don't have that ability with random websites.