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Why the mobile web still can’t compete with native apps, and how to fix it (open-web-advocacy.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world to c/privacy@programming.dev

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If we want to keep our personal computing private (i.e. data, communications, social life, everything), we need to fix this problem.

The web is what makes privacy possible on the desktop, but the desktop platform is slowly becoming irrelevant. IMO our last hope is to make web apps usable and popular on mobile. In theory it's feasible.

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[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The web is not open source by definition, I mean sure in theory it is but if you've ever tried to reverse engineer minified js I'm not sure it's all that much better than dalvik bytecode. It is easier to re than native code...but then wasm exists so again is the web that much better?

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Fair points. My other arguments stand.