But local guis are doing that too these days. Yes it's possible for web apps to integrate things like FullStory that let devs monitor people like a citizen of Zalem. I'm assuming here that pure Javascript is still not really used for compute-intensive applications and things like doc-to-pdf conversion and photo smoothing accomplished via web apps mostly still relies on server-side processing. If the software is running on your host, your data can stay on your host. Sure, it can be done server-side via the web, but the only way for that to be possible is for you to upload all of your photos across the network to the server, along with all the threat models that entails. Then get into applications like basic photo processing and document editing. The sandboxing done by the browser is the only protection you have (short of only ever visiting the web at all from a sandboxed host). A web app, in contrast, can't even be guaranteed to serve you the same version of itself from one second to the next, let alone guarantee that any change made to it between requests wasn't malicious. A web app cannot.īeyond that, you can also, in principle, run a desktop app in a sandbox and/or audit it in some way to observe its behavior and assure yourself it isn't malicious, and only then use it on a sensitive host.

But at least desktop software can, in principle, run without network access. On the other hand, trusting that your data won't be exfiltrated somehow is much harder because of how widespread the practice is. I believe the rationale here is, sure, you need to trust that the vendor isn't giving you malware, but for most software makers that have existed for longer than a few months, you have a reasonable track record to grant that level of trust. You can unplug from the net, install desktop software (web app) and run it without it being able to send anything anywhere until you plug back into the net You can not unplug from the net, install desktop software (web app) and run it without it being able to send anything anywhere You can unplug from the net, install desktop software (web app) and run it without it being able to send anything anywhere You can unplug from the net, install desktop software (native app) and run it without it being able to send anything anywhere until you plug back into the net You can not unplug from the net, install desktop software (native app) and run it without it being able to send anything anywhere You can unplug from the net, install desktop software (native app) and run it without it being able to send anything anywhere Native apps can not inform a server about what you're doing Native apps can inform a server about what you're doing

Web apps can not inform a server about what you're doing Web apps can inform a server about what you're doing Every single thing you just mentioned both occurs and doesn't occur with both web and native apps depending on what the app was built to do.

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