There have been plenty of sites that have lied about such things.
There have been plenty of sites that have lied about such things.
The point is the more work the server does, the more data you have to send them to do that work.
As far as trusting it's client-side only, opening the network tab in devtools would suffice.
If you think they broke the sandbox (Google would pay millions for that!), yes sniffing would be the next step.
At least you have a sandbox on web, you usually don't have that for native apps.
But that's all better than willingly sending data to another entity's server and trusting them to not abuse/leak it.
What I have for native applications that I don't for the web is the ability to firewall off the native applications.
There you're placing trust on the firewall's sandbox. Are you sure the application can't communicate with the outside at all? DNS exfliltration for example?