Another important reason to move to online applications is that you can change the terms of the deal at any time. This may sound more nefarious than it needs to be, it just means you do not have to commit fully to your licensing terms before the first deal is made, which is tempting for just about anyone.

Your browser is acting like a condom, in that respect (pun not intended).

Yes, there are many cases when condoms are indicative of respect between parties. But a great many people would disagree that the best, most respectful relationships involve condoms.

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Does not sell or operate respectful software. I will agree with you that it's best to run it in a browser (or similar sandbox).

Web apps are great until you want to revert to an older version from before they became actively user-hostile or continue to use them past EoL or company demise.

In contrast as long as you have a native binary, one way or another you can make the thing run and nobody can stop you.

Yes, amen. The more invasive and abusive software gets, the less I want it running on my machine natively. Native installed applications for me now are limited only to apps I trust, and even those need to have a reason to be native apps rather than web apps to get a place in my app drawer

You mean you’d rather run unverified scripts using a good order of magnitude more resources with a slower experience and have an entire sandboxing contraption to keep said unverified scripts from doing anything to your machine…

I know the browser is convenient, but frankly, its been a horror show of resource usage and vulnerabilities and pathetic performance