Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Get Installed Related Apps (#436)

Hi folks, thanks for the feedback. I've added an `Abuse Considerations` section to the [explainer](https://github.com/WICG/get-installed-related-apps/blob/master/EXPLAINER.md#abuse-considerations).

> Additionally, are you sure there is no way particular approach you could devise to avoid the ability of private mode detection?

We could drop the privacy mode restriction to not return any related applications. I don't think that's the right way to go though, it's a privacy improvement for 100% of origins at the expense of having an imperfect privacy mode detector for a very very small percentage of origins. I recommended keeping track of how the API is being used, if at all, by the origins that control pre-installed native applications on certain platforms.

> I'm a little concerned about the intended operation / user flow for this when the user has both web apps and native apps "installed." 

Unfortunately this is a practice that we already see a lot of in the wild. Certain websites try to redirect you to their native application, and if not installed it would just take you to a place to install it. I don't think this API will affect that practice, but that's why we added the privacy mode restriction. I've expanded on this in the explainer.

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