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Re:Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting ... by bathtub365 on Friday July 03, 2020 @02:40PM (#23726366)
It's really sad that the Web, full of terrible JavaScript and tracking, is being pitched as the safer alternative to applications. Keep in mind that unless you somehow run a version of a Web application locally, every interaction with it is traceable. Advertising parasites have eaten the world.
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Re:Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting ... by rohan1024 on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:00PM (#23726515)
>every action with website is traceable.

Traceable but not the kind of access an app has. Traceability can be spoofed not the data that app is reading from your device. No website is ever going to ask your contacts permission to proceed further while their are tonne of apps that won't let you use app if you reject that permission.

For example, GPay in India needs freaking location permission. God knows what it does with that data.

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Re:Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting ... by bathtub365 on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:10PM (#23726603)
Websites request access to my location data constantly. They also likely have some semblance of where I am even before they ask due to IP geolocation. If I'm using an offline application this transaction wouldn't be happening.

My point isn't that either apps or the Web are better. It's a more fundamental issue of software I use constantly talking to systems I don't control. It just so happens that the Web only exists if I accept that this will happen. Applications can exist even if I don't.

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Re:Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting ... by TedDoesntTalk on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:12PM (#23726614)
These apps are copying clipboard content while you are using other apps. No website can do that for another website.
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Re:Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting ... by bathtub365 on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:15PM (#23726652)
Yes, but also, no website can exist without knowing how I'm interacting with it.
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Re:Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting ... by coronadisaster on Friday July 03, 2020 @04:21PM (#23727164)
It's because of the way Google and Apple implemented the mobile applications (apps can do everything the web can do and worst).
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