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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The fundamental insecurity of native apps, and the role of App Stores in a cover-up of that essential fact cannot be stressed enough.
The always-suspect security of stores creates the mythos that enables the whole extractive App Store racket. Without the patina of security, giving away ridiculous amounts of user data and system access to any app the user installs would never pass muster.
Which is why browsers don't do that.