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corty on Aug 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: W3C give up on preventing PWAs from tracking users

The only winning move is not to play. The only privacy-preserving PWA doesn't have network access. Which excludes the 'W' part...

hawkoy on Aug 2, 2020 [–]

Just disconnect your phone from the internet.

Native apps aren't much better. The real solution is to use FOSS apps that you can check yourself and trust regardless of pwa or native.

Your browser and device already had APIs to track you long before PWA standard and they still do.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/tiktok-and-53-other-...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/25/21338151/instagram-bug-ca...

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374

https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1427

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