I think the point made earlier was that YWN app requires an adundance of permissions for no reason at all.
Take ‘Device ID’ for example. No other browser apps that I found require this permission. In essence, the only permission really needed is the Internet permission. Why should a website need to know the contacts I have on my phone (Identity permission)?
As for your point about reading the article through the browser,
this is ok in my opinion. I too hate loading mobile sites. With this app I only have to enter to the exact page I want. Also, I trust that Chrome will not abuse the privileges I grant it. (Furthermore, even Chrome doesn’t require as many privileges as the YWN app does. Go figure…)