The browser is the OS. The website is the application.
Browser and os can both track your history. An application / a website can not.
You might think websites can via tracking scripts connecting to third parties. But applications can connect to third parties even easier. As a user, you have even less power to prevent that.
A native app might be able to violate my privacy. But an OS that can do so is much more dangerous. The reason is the volume of data that can be collected by the gatekeeper.
What we need is a user friendly browser
What we need is a user friendly browser
The next step would be for some open source initiative to do the work and de-google Firefox completely. If that fork of Firefox gains traction, it might bring Mozilla on the right track so they drop their ties with Google to survive.
No, that's wrong.
How about the browser is an application, and the website is ... a website?