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by LoganDark 670 days ago
On platforms that have app stores (including desktop operating systems like Windows, some distributions of Linux, and especially macOS), the apps you download from the store are sandboxed (UWP; Flatpak/AppImage; Apple) far more than raw binaries. Tauri apps are raw binaries; Electron apps are too; those are both different from visiting a webpage in a browser, regardless of whether such navigation happened manually or automatically (as in from a PWA shortcut).