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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by marcosdumay on Sunday August 27, 2023 @12:17PM (#37284073)
Those could all run in a browser. A PWA isn't cloud software, it's just software that runs on your browser.

But they would indeed ask for all kinds of permissions. And K9 and the network scanner would get a really scary-looking permission dialog.

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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by kmeisthax on Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:14PM (#37284644)
Mozilla would cry bloody murder if Google proposed a raw sockets API for the web, for the same reason why they oppose WebUSB & friends.
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Re:Prisoners of Google Android Development by themerone on Sunday August 27, 2023 @05:20PM (#37286750)
Google proposed raw sockets back in 2020.
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