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Re:Reddit and LinkedIn apps also caught copying and pasting ... by bob1029 on Friday July 03, 2020 @03:18PM (#23726674)
The sandboxed-by-default experience offered by browsers is an excellent security boundary these days. Decades of experience has built a very good process around how arbitrary code should run (or not run) on client devices.

Sure, you still have to deal with tracking cookies and the like, but this a tiny amount of pain compared to what a full native app could do to you without your awareness. Wiping the slate with a web browser is a fairly trivial exercise too.

Progressive web applications are the best and brightest future we have. I can only hope that some sort of antitrust shake-up forces vendors like Apple to fully-embrace PWAs and other such alternatives. When looking at the technical specifications, there isn't a whole lot of good reasoning for requiring native apps outside of exclusivity and control over their ecosystem.

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