I think you’ve gotten a bit confused. He’s not saying that we should do stuff in the browser, he’s saying that a phone/computer doesn’t need to be involved at all.

I like how his reaction to a “crisis of conscience” is to continue to lie to the person, fraudulently take home all this super valuable technology, and then somehow use this bit of immoral bullshit to actually make something decent. It’s like a microcosm of his whole character/career.