• Godort@lemm.ee
    5·
    2 months ago

    The reason this is done is because you can see everything your browser is doing, but you can’t see everything an application is doing without disassembling it.

    I want very much to go back to websites. Apps are stupid.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      the reason is children. for some reason the most recent generation of kids requires apps instead of sites. god forbid they have to remember an address.

      just look at the fuckload of people who cant use lemmy without an ‘app’

      this is one of my peeeves

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        0·
        2 months ago

        One of the reasons I like apps for Lemmy is for notifications.

        Coincidentally, one of the reasons companies like apps is for notifications.

        • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
          1·
          2 months ago

          Your mobile browser supports notifications per site like an app. It even supports custom icons per site when the notification pops up.

          You don’t even know if the telemetry leaving your phone to the app server is using TLS encryption, you just let them hail-mary football-throw send it.

          I don’t understand why we insist on bending over and freely giving away our data to fucking apps.

  • bitwolf@lemmy.one
    1·
    2 months ago

    I hate that websites will purposely block a perfectly working website feature if it sees you’re on a mobile just to refer you to their mobile app.

  • bitball@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months ago

    there is an alternate universe out there where every shitty social media website has good rss services and doesn’t degrade you for not using the app

  • pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    2 months ago

    If it ain’t on F-Droid, chances are I ain’t usin’ it.

    I think there are a grand total of 4 non-free apps installed on my phone right now. 2 are for smart home crap I don’t want to live without right now, and 2 are Google services I haven’t pried myself away from yet.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    0·
    2 months ago

    Most of these memes are ironic, but this one is actually true. These apps could just be websites, but instead they’re bloated spyware