Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
by Cort3z on Sunday April 23, 2023 @06:53AM
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I want good PWAs. I don’t want borderline spyware-apps with access to all kinds of apis. There is no reason why a messaging app needs my gyro data, or gps, or all of the other stuff they just implicitly get because they are an app. I’m starting to think that some of the worst that ever happened was that Firefox OS failed.
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Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
by palata on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:06AM
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How will PWAs prevent your messaging app from getting gps data?
A bad native app can require the gps permission, but a bad PWA app will be able to do the same, right?
Re:iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe
by Cort3z on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @07:52AM
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They would be running in a browser, and you can just deny it getting location information, but in general, apps have access to much more raw data than a tab in the browser does. It's also possible, in theory, to run a PWA in a different browser which masks your information.