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They can check what you are doing anyways

5....4...3..1 😆

The only question is how will they brand it. Ban “The wild internet” and instead opt for a “secure app experience”.

What is the reason for the question?

Authoritarianism

Keeping you safe.

Use the mobile phone for safe operations only. Every software that has been rebranded app is not safe. Get a serious Linux privacy oriented distribution and use strong software that is open source and can be understood. From what they are doing in relation with spying it is clear that they cannot break encryption. Their hopes in quantum computing failed.

On a personal level you are right that there are a lot of things that you can do. But the majority will never do these things and we live in a deeply connected world where we can not just stay in our own isolated hardened linux bubble.

We are seeing increasing digital censorship and controls. I can imagine a world where having unrestricted access to a website through an open internet protocol is not deemed “safe for society” anymore. Apps that either get banned from the App Store or would never have been allowed in the first place instead choose to run as web apps. Will this “loophole” always be allowed?

We need npub based websites

they will just come for DNS

What you mean loopholes. Electronic networks can be built without permission. Every opensourced line of code can never be unseen by a law. So I would assume, that every opensource application or operatingsystem can exist in every future. I mean you can just clone it to your computer and share it locally, even when all internet connections would be disabled.

I was calling them “loopholes” in the quotation marks because that is how governments could frame it in the future. You are correct that open source technology does and will continue to exist. But devices can and I suspect will become more locked down, or at least there will be pressure to move in that direction. Apple already has tight restrictions about what is allowed in their phones App Store. They would also comply with any government directives about what is or is not allowed to be made freely available in their app stores (such as a hypothetical future ban on browsers). Maybe it is possible to jailbreak an iPhone or side load apps but how many people do you know that would do this? Do you know anyone who has ever put an app on their iPhone that they did not download off the Apple App Store? The google play store will be no different but at least android is more open.