> God forbid. I happen to like adblockers, inspecting app DOM, and applying custom styles and features with browser extensions. I can customize even poorly-built web apps like Youtube and Facebook with enough poking around and custom selectors. It's great.

This is weirdly lost on HNers every time this "debate" comes up.

Native apps are the wet dream of any website they complain about for having too many trackers and ads and data exfiltration.

The web browser is a fluke of history that gives users power that we don't have with native apps. Let's not be so quick to give it up just because you've never mitmproxy'd your phone to see what it's doing.