Meta hints WhatsApp for Windows 11 will switch to a Chromium web app

ksec | 14 points

I love how services are first becoming app-only, no website and then the apps are replaced again with websites, only that you can't use the normal browser to view them...

xg15 | a day ago

If Electron is really inevitable, can we dramatically slim down Electron?

ksec | a day ago

It's a downgrade from a native app performance-wise, but from a security and privacy standpoint there are only upsides. The web browser is the most sophisticated end-user sandbox on your computer. A highly internet-connected app from a company like Meta, which is notorious for privacy violations, belongs in a sandbox.

gradientsrneat | a day ago

The screenshot says Webview2 https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/Microsoft-edge/webview...

So it's Chromium, but not Electron.

flakiness | a day ago

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BoredPositron | a day ago

how better to track their users with

deafpolygon | a day ago