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The web can function as a fully offline application runtime. Desktop applications can track your every click with HTTP requests to their server. The runtime d

by loo 5y ago

The web can function as a fully offline application runtime. Desktop applications can track your every click with HTTP requests to their server. The runtime does not determine this.

pjmlp 5y ago
Desktop applications can track, Web always tracks. And if by offline you mean PWAs, unless you are doing Hello World, that app cache is going to be cleared and then analytics can be updated. Finally, there is very little a pure PWA can do without doing HTTP and Websocket requests.
- cookiengineer 5y ago
  > Desktop applications can track, Web always tracks. Desktop code cannot be verified. Web code can be verified. This argument goes both ways. If we're talking about the web-equivalent of Desktop Apps: There's electron, which can do far more than HTTP requests and WebSockets - but that on the other hand is also too bloated, right? Sometimes I wish people would just make up their mind, stop complaining, and start trying to fix it. We had servo, and we had a nice modular and privacy respecting future for everybody; and then we messed it up because apparently nobody really cares about it.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Web code can be verified?! Please explain the crowd how you verify the SaaS server side. Electron is an abortion, that will eventually follow Active Desktop footsteps after its fashion hype curve dies out. In any case, Electron based apps can do whatever user account they run under.
    - loo 5y ago
      You're missing that there doesn't need to be a SaaS server side. HTTP is simply the delivery mechanism for a self-contained WASM application. Just like it is the delivery mechanism for most native binaries now.
    - Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
      Client-side code can be verified. If it's in your browser, you can see the code it's running and the data it is transmitting. And you're only a single uBlock Origin (other other browser add-on) filter away from blocking it.
  - f1refly 5y ago
    > Desktop code cannot be verified My gentoo install would like to have a word with you

by loo 5y ago

The web can function as a fully offline application runtime. Desktop applications can track your every click with HTTP requests to their server. The runtime does not determine this.

pjmlp 5y ago

Desktop applications can track, Web always tracks. And if by offline you mean PWAs, unless you are doing Hello World, that app cache is going to be cleared and then analytics can be updated. Finally, there is very little a pure PWA can do without doing HTTP and Websocket requests.

cookiengineer 5y ago
> Desktop applications can track, Web always tracks. Desktop code cannot be verified. Web code can be verified. This argument goes both ways. If we're talking about the web-equivalent of Desktop Apps: There's electron, which can do far more than HTTP requests and WebSockets - but that on the other hand is also too bloated, right? Sometimes I wish people would just make up their mind, stop complaining, and start trying to fix it. We had servo, and we had a nice modular and privacy respecting future for everybody; and then we messed it up because apparently nobody really cares about it.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Web code can be verified?! Please explain the crowd how you verify the SaaS server side. Electron is an abortion, that will eventually follow Active Desktop footsteps after its fashion hype curve dies out. In any case, Electron based apps can do whatever user account they run under.
  - loo 5y ago
    You're missing that there doesn't need to be a SaaS server side. HTTP is simply the delivery mechanism for a self-contained WASM application. Just like it is the delivery mechanism for most native binaries now.
  - Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
    Client-side code can be verified. If it's in your browser, you can see the code it's running and the data it is transmitting. And you're only a single uBlock Origin (other other browser add-on) filter away from blocking it.
- f1refly 5y ago
  > Desktop code cannot be verified My gentoo install would like to have a word with you