[hombre_fatal]

Software I don’t have to install at all “respects me” the most.

Native software being an optimum is mostly an engineer fantasy that comes from imagining what you can build.

In reality that means having to install software like Meta’s WhatsApp, Zoom, and other crap I’d rather run in a browser tab.

I want very little software running natively on my machine.

[cosmic_cheese]

Web apps are great until you want to revert to an older version from before they became actively user-hostile or continue to use them past EoL or company demise.

In contrast as long as you have a native binary, one way or another you can make the thing run and nobody can stop you.

[freedomben]

Yes, amen. The more invasive and abusive software gets, the less I want it running on my machine natively. Native installed applications for me now are limited only to apps I trust, and even those need to have a reason to be native apps rather than web apps to get a place in my app drawer

[solatic]

Your browser is acting like a condom, in that respect (pun not intended).

Yes, there are many cases when condoms are indicative of respect between parties. But a great many people would disagree that the best, most respectful relationships involve condoms.

> Meta

Does not sell or operate respectful software. I will agree with you that it's best to run it in a browser (or similar sandbox).

[tormeh]

Desktop operating systems really dropped the ball on protecting us from the software we run. Even mobile OSs are so-so. So the browser is the only protection we reasonably have.

I think this is sad.

[shash]

You mean you’d rather run unverified scripts using a good order of magnitude more resources with a slower experience and have an entire sandboxing contraption to keep said unverified scripts from doing anything to your machine…

I know the browser is convenient, but frankly, its been a horror show of resource usage and vulnerabilities and pathetic performance

[whstl]

The #1 reason the web experience universally sucks today is because companies add an absurd amount of third-party code on their pages for tracking, advertisement, spying on you or whatever non-essential purpose. That, plus an excessive/unnecessary amount of visual decoration.

The idea that somehow those companies would respect your privacy were they running a native app is extremely naive.

We can already see this problem on video games, where copy protection became resource-heavy enough to cause performance issues.