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Maybe it’s not so much the business as the consumer. Commented before on travelling to a new client’s shop and having the employees asking for an app to access their payroll.
Told the manager that our site would automatically optimize for phone, works great as-is.
“These people are not going to understand that unless they can download an app.”
“No problem. I’ll show everyone how to put a shortcut on their home screen. Done! I’ll even write up directions for Android and Apple.”
<manager shaking her head>
Understand, a load of these people were illiterate, embarrassed to need help filling out the online hiring docs.
If this was your experience as a business, would you not wrap your site in an app and push it? Plus, imagine the talk, “Yeah, site’s OK but they don’t have an app.”
And the app is just the mobile website in a sandboxed web browser.
As someone who uses a Linux phone, this becomes more and more true everyday
As someone that doesn’t want to give my IMEI, location, and list of installed apps to anyone that asks, same here.
I block 99% of all trackers and social media.
I can’t even order a fucking pizza online.
fuck this commercial world.
It’s a fucking war zone…
24k sweet baby Jesus they want yer precious bodily fluids m8.
Why the fuck does BBC sounds have so much tracking???
Probably to collect all that it can to sell the data. Or they fucked up the feature and it triggers a connection attempt each second or sth.
I mean, even for your average commercial app, that’s an absolutely insane rate. I’m betting it keeps retrying whenever it fails or something
Yeah, honestly that almost looks like straight-up incompetence, like a ton of polling going on.
Yeah, I wondered that but I’m no tech expert.
What do you use to block attempts?
Looks like the duckduck go app for android
Thank you. I knew they had a browser but I didn’t know it could also block tracking from other apps. Definitely useful.
looks inside
shitty frontend for the website
when you use their “app” but it still asks you to install the app…
And requires access to your contacts and precise location for some reason.
Isolated dummy contacts and fake geolocation.
Yes, Chinese company I am the king, can’t you see how my eScooter is parked at the royal residence 24/7?
The app login launches the browser to handle the login, since the app is just a front end for the webpage.
Luckily you can set the browser into desktop mode and see everything super tiny (sometimes).
It’s becoming more and more common to not even design a website for desktop
I can’t count how often I go to a website on a 1440p screen and I can see only like three things at once. I fucking hate that shit
My PC is driving a 40" monitor, imagine my pain. Even worse on the extended 55", but that one’s just for movies.
SITES BE LIKE
CTRL + - all day long. And I’m old and blind, hence the monster monitor.
I consider your request to download your app as a hostile act.
I’m about to switch to Ubuntu Phone soon anyways, basically no apps on that. I am ready for the peace of mind.
I was using Ubuntu Touch back when Canonical launched it in partnership with BQ. I still remember how annoyed I was when reddit kept telling me to download the app or continue with “Google Chrome” when I was on Firefox. Those where the days.
If you get a iphone you can relive those days
But it’s Ubuntu so you’ll have snaps, that’s close enough right?
Came here to say þis. I tend to do use apps; I’m anticipating a lot of new habits I’ll need to use.
So much hate for just using a few different characters
Petty little bitches. I almost always find Sxan’s comments useful and relevant, good discussion. Hope they hang in with their style and fuck the haters.
Your link format needs to be parentheses () instead of curly brackets {}
Ye I was typing fast and hit the wrong thing and then realized I was on my side account and not the main one im starting to use so I switched off and didnt even noticed until I decided to check notifications.
Its fixed now.
Me: Where’s the menu?
Waiter: “In our app.”
Me: Guess I’ll starve.
I’ve left two restaurants for the bullshit app-menu thing.
Fortunately haven’t run across one since.
you can’t even get a ride from the ‘taxi’ here without their ‘app’… and an existing account, with a verified payment method saved.
Where is “here?”
You know, here. The internet.
Sounds like Serializd. I love that site so much, but the dev clearly cares way more about the app than the site cause there’s so many basic features on the app that have no plans to ever come to the site (or at least none announced).
Would you like a cookie?
Are you 18?
Can i send you notifications?
Can i gert your position?
Do you want to login with google?
Can I see your call log?
How about your contacts then?
Messages would be ok too.
Nevermind. Forget all that. Can I access your camera?
How it feels browsing AliExpress as of late…
I’m using piefed on Firefox via my phone lol. Oh no.
