If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web browser

Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by city41 on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:43AM (#26690339)

There has been a ton of work to address all of that such as web assembly, webgl, webgpu, webworkers, websockets, http2, sse, on and on. There's a lot of web tech out there (for better or for worse). You really can make a webapp that's just as feature rich, complex and performant as a native app these days. Still tons of work to be done though, web assembly in particular needs some additional features before it can really shine.

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by BlueTemplar on Sunday April 04, 2021 @11:57AM (#26690495)

In theory you can, but it's a mindset of "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail", happily pushed by Google trying to wrestle control over people's computers from Microsoft.

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by city41 on Sunday April 04, 2021 @12:07PM (#26690597)

Yeah I agree with that. But Apple has an app store hammer, and Microsoft has a Windows hammer too. Of all the hammers, I feel Google's is the least evil of them all. They're all really bad, the state of technology today is er ... something. But at least with the web, I maintain hardware freedom and really the most freedom overall.

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Re:If you care about privacy, it’s time to try a new web bro... by BlueTemplar on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:53PM (#26692338)

Is it really the least evil ?

There's a wide panoply of programming languages that can be used on Windows PCs, including specifically to make user interfaces, which are cross-platform, like Qt.

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