• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    > downloads desktop app

    > looks inside

    > it’s a webpage with a dedicated browser

    (Web 2.0 and it’s consequences…)

    • tudor@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Why I dislike web apps. They make the devs lazy enough to not bother making a native app

    • Saki@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Why even make a desktop app at this point? I get doing that if it has some inherent advantage over the web version, but why go through the trouble of making another program if it’s just gonna be the same but in electron?

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        4 months ago

        Think of all that lovely data and tracking you can slurp up when unconstrained by the browser sandbox.