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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 46 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

apps allow user tracking and advertising though. Much more valuable to the corpos than a few lost customers.

[–] benjaminb@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Also mich More valuable to Google, as they are the biggest Advertising company. I looked it up and according to this source they have ~70% of the pay-per-click market.