[qz3]

On a desktop app, you can see what kind of request the program makes and which servers it contacts. With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.

[alimbada]

You can do the same in your browser by opening the developer tools and in fact it comes built in to the browser whereas on a desktop you'd have to install another app like Wireshark/Fiddler to see those requests.

[stephenr]

That only tells you what your browser sends to their server. It doesn't tell you what connections their server makes.

[crystaln]

How so? It's quite simple to tell what a web app does in my understanding. Chrome has many good monitoring tools.

[dillondoyle]

The webapp can send your data wherever once it has the data, chrome won't log http requests if they were made server to server etc

[pritambaral]

> With a webapp, you'll never know what the app does.

Unless you run uMatrix or uBlock Origin (same code in both as far as this feature is concerned), of course.

[progx]

Nonsens. Every traffic can be monitored, web app or native app, that is not important.