Why the mobile web still can’t compete with native apps, and how to fix it
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February 27, 2026
submitted by JubilantJaguar to privacy 11 points | 6 comments https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-on-redmonk--why-the-mobile-web-still-cant-compete-with-native-apps-and-how-to-fix-it/
If we want to keep our personal computing private (i.e. data, communications, social life, everything), we need to fix this problem.
The web is what makes privacy possible on the desktop, but the desktop platform is slowly becoming irrelevant. IMO our last hope is to make web apps usable and popular on mobile. In theory it’s feasible.
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