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Nope. I will always choose a native experience over a web experience. It's just plain better,

Nope. I will always choose a web experience over a native. It's just plain safer. Nothing to install on device. Less likely to have malware to track everything.

Native is not just plain better.

It's going to be a little tricky to define "safe" once everything goes online. Internet is getting more and more governed by a few different players. "Less likely to ... track everything" hmm.

No offense but your argument holds no water. Unless your dumb enough to root your phone then the App Store is fairly safe to use. Do you not install software on your personal computer?

in practice i'm pretty sure the web things i'm using are tracking me much more than any of the native apps i've ever used. I remember the outcry whenever someone would find out that $native app would send some weird packets over wireshark - and even then, it's been 10 years since windows started asking for permissions for software to open a socket so you can't really miss it if it tracks you.

Also native apps don't have ads (afaik, never saw one except windows 10's shell but then I use 99% libre software), and I can stay at version 1.5 of the native app if it works better for me while this is impossible with web apps.

> Also native apps don't have ads (afaik, never saw one except windows 10's shell but then I use 99% libre software), and I can stay at version 1.5 of the native app if it works better for me while this is impossible with web apps.

Not much of an Android user, I gather.

By the way, recent versions of Android allow apps to self update.

> Not much of an Android user, I gather.

mobile apps outside of native Jolla ones make my blood boil faster that I can turn those wretched devices off, so, yes, I try to limit my interactions with those to a minimum.

Oh, an actual Jolla user!

Sadly my Jolla phone died down last year and my life is filled with pain since

Only with users consent.

As a user, I always choose web experience over a native app, if for no other reason that I can use an ad blocker in the browser and not in an app.

have you heard of airplane mode?

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