Comment by searchableguy
4 years ago
Then change the expectations. Native apps aren't much better as far as privacy goes. Users should absolutely verify everything they use.
4 years ago
Then change the expectations. Native apps aren't much better as far as privacy goes. Users should absolutely verify everything they use.
Sure but for a long time web has been touted (rightly or wrongly) as this safe sandboxed convenient distribution platform. The expectation is very much still that a website shouldn’t be able to harm your computer and that expectation isn’t going to change any time soon.
In top of that, less technically inclined people don’t even expect native applications to be able to harm their computer and we haven’t been able to change that expectation.
That's why I have almost no Apps on my phone. Just a lot of different browsers. I think the new mobile Vivaldi browser is the first with an option to switch of the 3d sensor for the website
Native apps go through an approval process
Correction: some native apps on some platforms
Correction: Native apps on the platform this thread is about.