▲ 710 ▼ Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible (letter.open-web-advocacy.org) submitted 2 years ago by libreom@lemmings.world to c/firefox@lemmy.ml 146 comments fedilink hide all child comments We need to exert more pressure on apple and eu to not remove PWAs. Every signature counts, please sign and share EU has already started a preliminary investigation on this http://archive.today/2024.02.26-223134/https://www.ft.com/content/d2f7328c-5851-4f16-8f8d-93f0098b6adc
[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children) What’s the point of it on phones? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) Single app for all platforms, without the baggage and issues of the cross-native solutions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) They're actually secure too. It's always interesting to me how iphone owners are so concerned about security and privacy, right up until Apple tells them not to. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I've had an Apple user on here try to tell me that PWAs would open new security issues if they could be installed by any browser. They didn't want to accept that a PWA would need both a browser exploit and an iOS exploit to have the same malicious potential as an iOS app has with just an iOS exploit. But they didn't care that literally any website has the same potential for exploitation as PWAs do. I genuinely don't understand how you can get to this understanding without willfully ignoring how these things work. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Right... permalink fedilink source parent [–] stoicferret@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Moving the app outside the confinement of official distribution channel/getting rid of 20/30% of store tax? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Isn’t that what’s happening in the EU? permalink fedilink source parent [–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago You don’t have to rely on stupid “app” stores permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) Single app for all platforms, without the baggage and issues of the cross-native solutions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) They're actually secure too. It's always interesting to me how iphone owners are so concerned about security and privacy, right up until Apple tells them not to. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I've had an Apple user on here try to tell me that PWAs would open new security issues if they could be installed by any browser. They didn't want to accept that a PWA would need both a browser exploit and an iOS exploit to have the same malicious potential as an iOS app has with just an iOS exploit. But they didn't care that literally any website has the same potential for exploitation as PWAs do. I genuinely don't understand how you can get to this understanding without willfully ignoring how these things work. permalink fedilink source parent [–] can@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago Right... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ferralcat@monyet.cc 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) They're actually secure too. It's always interesting to me how iphone owners are so concerned about security and privacy, right up until Apple tells them not to. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I've had an Apple user on here try to tell me that PWAs would open new security issues if they could be installed by any browser. They didn't want to accept that a PWA would need both a browser exploit and an iOS exploit to have the same malicious potential as an iOS app has with just an iOS exploit. But they didn't care that literally any website has the same potential for exploitation as PWAs do. I genuinely don't understand how you can get to this understanding without willfully ignoring how these things work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I've had an Apple user on here try to tell me that PWAs would open new security issues if they could be installed by any browser. They didn't want to accept that a PWA would need both a browser exploit and an iOS exploit to have the same malicious potential as an iOS app has with just an iOS exploit. But they didn't care that literally any website has the same potential for exploitation as PWAs do. I genuinely don't understand how you can get to this understanding without willfully ignoring how these things work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stoicferret@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Moving the app outside the confinement of official distribution channel/getting rid of 20/30% of store tax? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Isn’t that what’s happening in the EU? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago Isn’t that what’s happening in the EU? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago You don’t have to rely on stupid “app” stores permalink fedilink source parent