Apps for Shopping, Download via the Aurora Store vs. Using Browser?

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@plamen

I’d personally use the native app, whenever I can.
Reason - I can control more granularly app permissions.

For the apps in the category you mentioned, I’d never grant access to mic, location, camera, etc. I will also not grant access to run in the background. You can use iode’s traffic analyzer to see if there is something iffy happening in terms of connections when you use the apps.

I tend to follow this advice as well, but for apps like that I add an extra layer by running them with “Shelter” as discussed in this thread. But honestly the main reason I do that is so I can freeze them when not using them, but @plamen’s advice to just disable allowing them to run in the background should accomplish that purpose as well.