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backscratchestoday at 4:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Using websites instead of apps, while often more annoying, minimizes dramatically the privileges you provide to services.


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Aachentoday at 5:13 PM

And the amount of lock-in. If they ever decide to kick out your favorite OS or hardware vendor, well, good luck doing that if you can use the services on a website. They'd have to port all the web users over to mobile and know they'll lose at least some of those customers