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You clearly never looked into how much tracking mobile apps have. There are a lot of tracking SDKs which literally track every click. At least on the web you can block things where mobile is black box.

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> The ideal is locally running libre software implementing open protocols

In contrast to the typical mobile user, this is a very niche M.O. Not practical for most I would say.

You have a lot more control over things running on your device / network - regardless of what they _try_ to do.

Your browser is running locally on your own network. These comments are out of touch with the reality of web and native apps of the last decade

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