1y ago

"Everything being a sleek App, instead of being a clunky website. Which is definitely the way to go." - Mrwhosetheboss

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Nah, I'm good. I'm fine with services being limited to what information they can convince my browser to give them, rather than what they can convince my phone to give them. Or try and convince me to give them permission to access.
- I think that's actually the reason "sleek apps" became so common. Since browsers have all that sandboxing and privacy settings now.

website.
- I wonder why pwas never became more popular. You can offer your service for everyone, without the need to install anything, while letting people install it as an app, if they want.
  
  agree here. Im guessing because of the massive control apps give the places. I can no script my browser.

In my experience, most "apps" are just the website with some features and zoom disabled, wrapped in electron.
So I prefer the browser version, where I have all my privacy enhancing plugins.

Garbage take. Having apps as PWAs is better for security, privacy, and doesn't need to be clunky. Websites are clunky when they import massive remote JS libraries instead of just relying more on CSS. No website I've every visited has had a valid reason to be slow, I mean we can literally use a webpage to control a remote VM in real time. Apps get to declare most of their permissions and will often require these unnecessary permissions to use them at all.

No thanks, I would rather not have to use Waydroid and deal with Google's services because of course you didn't make the app available on your website or on F-Droid.