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by slikrick 974 days ago
but realistically they aren't, so why are you even mentioning it?

not every app is on the windows or Mac App store, not every app is on the Linux package managers. even so there is no sandboxing so you're just waiting until one of them gets compromised and hope nothing bad happens

sandboxing hostile apps is the only true way to protect yourself, and even that isn't perfect

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>even so there is no sandboxing

Lenovo sells all-in-one PCs that run Android, and in a world without Javascript, you can imagine such a thing having become much more common that it actually has become so far in our world (e.g., with more enhancements done to Android to work well with a mouse) and of course Android has very solid sandboxing of apps.