If someone has physical access to your phone, you have a lot more to worry about than mere root exploits. And given those who root their devices are far out of the profile of ordinary users, so a specially targeted hack like this is pointless as compared to the regular kind of exploits in apps that can target a wider base.

So it's a case of looking back with shit tinted glasses. The current environment is far more user hostile. Arrogant devs deciding they know best what the user should be allowed to do (starting with Firefox post version 4 and Windows post version 8). Design solely for mobile and then stretch it to the desktop. Or create a gigantic bloated mess of an Electron app which is just the webpage bundled with a Chrome instance and call it a day. Any day far worse in terms of resource consumption to end up offering less capabilities and worse UX than similar software running on a much slower computer from 25 years ago.

On Android there's the open source Feeder from F-droid.

There's no rule that says a feed reader HAS to be a webapp.

What for? Online banking worked perfectly fine on standard web browsers over HTTPS for years before smartphones became popular, why should that change now?

I don't see what this offers over Clementine on Linux - it offers complete local music collection (remember that?) management as well as adding streaming sources & Last.fm integration in a sane, desktop focused UI like there once existed.

No gigantic fonts and icons and wasted space that's more served for a mobile UI, and all that before the idiocy of using Javascript as a hammer for every damn thing instead of what it originally was as a means to add some interactivity to a webpage.

Then again, modern devs don't seem to care about the actual end user experience, this person essentially claims Electron is superior because Javascript and frameworks based on it are all he knows or cares to learn.

Plus it's ridiculous to apply collective guilt in any form by blaming later IBM management, given that anyone involved with 1940s German IBM is long dead by now.

From the viewers' side, there was no place to go and browse videos, you were limited to short embedded clips or had to download the entire file first.

Youtube was a game changer when it first appeared and Google hadn't yet acquired it.

That old chestnut again - this was true for MSDOS PCs in 1981 when the quote was said. It was still true 10 years later for whatever version of DOS was current then. People keep bringing it up as though Bill Gates said 'no one will need > 640k for all time to come'.

There's the mistake right there. Electron is to be avoided like the plague; if all I want is the same dumb touchscreen focused web UI of the creator's website, there's no need to wrap it in a Chrome instance and call it a 'desktop' app when it doesn't follow a single desktop UI convention.

Others clearly do, so your dismissing also ironically adds nothing like the comments you referred to. Those who continue to ignore Mozilla's enshittification over the years are part of the problem; as are normies who fall for their marketing about privacy. Spreading awareness about this is important, whether here or other online fora.

A free society will by definition be unequal; people have different priorities and abilities, and wealth acquisition isn't a zero sum game. If anything, instead of vilifying billionaires, take a look at the unelected but taxpayer funded and vastly bloated bureaucracies in every country around the world. The shocking revelations of USAID spending billions upon billions to interfere in other countries is example enough.

Prisons are the most equal places in the world in terms of living standards and options available to prisoners; nobody sees them as ideal.

Now lack of upward class mobility - that's a separate problem area to focus on.

Weren't they useful the last time around, when 'literally Hitler' totally murdered freedom of speech until Biden the hero restored it?

A new version needs to have better buttons and please, please offer the option of a steel wrist strap. I've had Fitbits rendered useless because the plastic/silicone strap cracked and there was no way to replace it.