Have you never seen a native app's auto-update get hijacked by malware? It happened (yet again) last month [0]
Tons of native apps also have plugins or addons, which (surprise surprise) is just code downloaded from some central repo, and run with way less sandboxing than JS.
Have you never seen a native app's auto-update get hijacked by malware? It happened (yet again) last month [0]
Tons of native apps also have plugins or addons, which (surprise surprise) is just code downloaded from some central repo, and run with way less sandboxing than JS.
[0] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/notepad-plus-...
That's pretty far from hosting the program in the same spot the content it manages is hosted, and also installing fresh versions instantly.