How do web browsers get away with letting you do anything through them according to this policy. Why are Nostr “browsers” (clients) treated differently than http “browsers” (clients) I suspect it’s just because enough people would be outraged at taxing their web activity because they grew up with the web before phone apps? But both http and Nostr are protocols?
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Browsers don’t use their apis and store. They are not native apps, they just display web content (simplified version). There’s nothing they can really do about browsers.
I don’t really think that is the answer, atleast I’m not satisfied by it. How is DuckDuckGo not a native app on iOS? Damus “just displays Nostr content”. The tool they are using to extract changes in Damus is the threat of being removed from the app market which would be the same threat to any web browser on iOS (DuckDuckGo, brave, etc). If they were to try to enforce this policy their. Our intuition tells us no one would try to extract the same concessions from a browser be those are ‘different’ but. But really how are they different from Damus? If the smartphone App Store had been developed before the internet/web would apples policies not have attempted the same policies on the ‘http viewer’? When Damus pulls a tag from a relay it decides how to view that with the Damus UI. When Firefox pulls an