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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by Gigachad on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:45PM (#39390312)
Browsers can still do that. It's more that PWAs look like entirely separate apps which the user would expect to be sandboxed. While a tab in a browser is clearly part of the browser app.
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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by anon373839 on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:54PM (#39390417)
This is not a meaningful distinction. Users ALSO expect ordinary websites’ data to be sandboxed. Users trust that pornhub.com won’t be allowed to read data entered into irs.gov.
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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by almostnormal on Thursday February 15, 2024 @07:38PM (#39391456)
> Users trust that pornhub.com won’t be allowed to read data entered into irs.gov.

Likely, most are worried about the other direction.

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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by Gigachad on Thursday February 15, 2024 @09:51PM (#39392577)
There is also a brand rep issue. If there is a Chrome bug that leaks data, it will be seen as a Google issue. If PWAs have the same problem, it will be seen as an Apple security issue. One that they have no ability to fix.
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Re:Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on... by cma on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:26AM (#39396687)
If I gave camera permissions to the zoom website on my browser, it is way worse if a random malicious email link gets them too on a different domain than if a permission spreads across PWAs I hand installed. This is Apple shaking people down.
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