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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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (30 children)

Firefox doesn't even support pwa, this is a weird community to post this

[–] [email protected] 80 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (29 children)

Firefox for Android supports PWAs, only Desktop Firefox dropped the support

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (26 children)

Which honestly makes sense, what’s the point of PWA on desktop?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What’s the point of it on phones?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You don’t have to rely on stupid “app” stores

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Single app for all platforms, without the baggage and issues of the cross-native solutions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Moving the app outside the confinement of official distribution channel/getting rid of 20/30% of store tax?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Isn’t that what’s happening in the EU?

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