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by horsawlarway 1751 days ago
> You really think the browser sandbox limits what the website can do with the data on their servers?

And that is different than the mobile app store, how, exactly?

Data you provide to a company is theirs to do with as they please - whether it was ingested through a Iphone app or a website makes absolutely zero difference.

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The difference between App Store apps and web apps is that many App Store apps work on local files or files stored in iCloud that are never ingested by the company that provided the app.

This is not true of web apps.