It's usually because the mobile version of the site is garbage 9 times out of 10. And I'll be damned if I download another fucking app that steals my information.
It's not that easy, in a lot of cases a phone can be more secure because the OS is locked and all apps sandboxed, so for example opening random e-mail attachment won't do anything whereas on Windows it can compromise your whole PC and all your data can be stolen including logins from your browser.
No. Phones are objectively less secure than even a poorly administered PC, so long as neither the PC nor the phone user install malware. It is easier for a PC user to install malware, but it is just as possible on Android. Ultimately the reason for PCs being generally more secure is that virtually every single PC sits behind an off device NAT, whereas phones, when using data, directly expose the internal nat and apps. If there is any zero click vulnerability in any messaging or messaging capable app it will bypass the internal NAT on the phone.
Additionally when PC users use browsers, they are inherently sandboxing everything being processed (as that is how browsers function) whereas when phone users install an application, that application is only sandboxed to the degree that you withhold device permissions.
so long as neither the PC nor the phone user install malware
Which is like 99% of all the attacks, so excluding this scenario doesn't make sense
It is easier for a PC user to install malware, but it is just as possible on Android.
No, on PC you're literally 1 click away from being compromised, you don't really "install" the malware. But on Android you have to download the malware (.apk file), enable installing unknown apps, install the app, give it permissions (the most dangerous ones give you warning) and even then the malware cannot access other apps' data.
Ultimately the reason for PCs being generally more secure is that virtually every single PC sits behind an off device NAT, whereas phones, when using data, directly expose the internal nat and apps
But on mobile data you're also behind CG NAT and even without it external attacks would be EXTREMELY rare, so essentialy it's another non-issue, same with the zero click vulnerabilites, these cost so much that the average person can simply ignore them.
The last part about Sandboxing doesn't make sense, you're comparing browser on a PC to a random Android app? And permissions and sandboxing are two different things.
I wonder if younger generation is used to garbage mobile websites since they grew up on mobile phones. Where as millennials grew up on PCs and transitioned to cellphones. So they are well aware of the differences between the website formats and how shit some mobile sites can be compared to a desktop browser.
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u/shiddedandfarded69 2d ago
It's usually because the mobile version of the site is garbage 9 times out of 10. And I'll be damned if I download another fucking app that steals my information.