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Time to Delete? The Most Invasive Apps List Includes Some of Your Favorites (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thankfully a lot of these are accessible by the web browser if you really need to use them. I should switch to doing that for more of them

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How does that help?

I didn't read the article, I came here for the jokes but then you got me curious

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So my understanding is that

  • apps can let them collect a lot more data than the website version. Apps have access to a bunch of device APIs, they might be running all the time vs a website tab that you close afterwards, etc.
  • you just open a link vs. logging in through the play store

On top of that if you want to lock down further, it's easier to use a privacy respecting browser than it is to sandbox the apps to. For the average person it's easier to go from using the app to opening the website in a browser, than it is to swap their OS to GrapheneOS and set up sandboxing

That's also why a lot of websites mess with the mobile site, they want you to use the app