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Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

no unified password management (or even worse: everything gets just attached to your google/ios account - i hate apps that do not give me the option to keep stuff separate)
no history functions (esp. over multiple devices)
single apps getting bought out by marketing corpos or bad actors without getting notified
data sniffing apps are harder to reign in than my sandboxed browser tabs.
NO ADBLOCKING AVAILABLE IN APPS

I'm sure there are a lot more reasons, that's just what came into my mind

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Apps being created seperatly doesn't mean they can't interact with each other, so I don't see those concerns as a problem. Is there anything fundamentally preventing the creation of new apps to do tasks currently exclusive to browsers?

Isn't the possibility of single apps getting bought out an argument against having all your eggs in one basket? 🙃

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

i think i would get notified in some way if the Mozilla Foundation changes ownership, and since it's open source that is not much of an argument. open source is getting more common the last few years, but it's definitely not common

sure, it doesn't mean they can't. everyone making their own app also means that they don't per default.

and you didn't touch the point regarding NO ADBLOCKING IN APPS while the whole debate here is because alphabet doesn't want effective adblocking in their browser.