![]() ![]() ![]() with apps, I have to trust each and every individual app developer to not try anything shady. With browsers it's basically an exploit needs to be found to gain unaithorized access. Ios did great with the choose which pics this app can see and android did pretty well with both work profiles and sanboxing app-data from other apps.īut at the end of the day, I will always feel much safer in a web browser because there's just a lot less security concerns. I have to admit though I will give props to both ios and android for adding finer-tuned controlls to what apps have access to. Maybe it's better for sites to be pushed to offer a simple, effective, and usable web-based experience. When your way of experiencing a type of content is pigeon-holed into an app. For your access your your friends' thoughts, or your friends' pictures. ![]() Imagine (sarcasm on!) living in a world where your experience of Reddit was governed by what your app felt like. In that period, a lot of people were really bositeriously of the opinion that migrating individual site experiences into half a dozen independent apps might lead to a consolidation of experience. There was a time when the mobile internet was burgeoning and worked really well in your browser, and mobile apps were not yet up to snuff. "More" telemetry can be gathered if you're browsing via a walled garden (app) specifically dedicated to a given site. Not to say that your operating system, virtual keyboard, and browser don't have the same leakage problems (they do).Īt the end of the day, a "site" you browse can gather certain telemetry about you in a browser. I think being against apps is due to things like privacy policies, EULAs, and the resulting loss of control of your data. ![]()
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