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.
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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
One of the reasons I like apps for Lemmy is for notifications.
Coincidentally, one of the reasons companies like apps is for notifications.
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.
My high school computer teacher once ranted about this to us. He said the younger students are lacking the basic concepts of computer stuff. They are spoiled too much to not even know what a file browser is.
That's the parents fault too for not teaching the kids.
Eeh, I see it as a gray area. Majority of millenials, myself included, grew up learning about novel technologies as they developed. We learned how to use desktop computers and browse the internet during a 'golden age' of innovation. They became part of our everyday lives and are second nature to us. The next generations don't fully have that experience but are expected to natively know their way around a computer since they're so ubiquitous in our lives. In reality, they know how to use smart phones and chromebooks but aren't getting the experience of working on a real desktop computer.
Regarding teaching kids the basics, I'd put it on the schools, not the parents. Do schools still have computer labs? That'd be where proper computer skills should be taught. If parents can help at home that's great, but I don't think it should be expected that every kid is going to have a real computer at home to learn on (versus phones, tablets, chromebooks, etc).
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.
FUCK websites that require a login, i'm looking at you twitter, you need to be sued over this shit.
Voyager app users
Anybody who wants to offer me an open source app that doesn’t spy on me is totally fine, especially when the app kicks ass.
- sent from Voyager
Can you explain this? I'm a very stupid person.
Voyager started off as a website(wefwef.app) but is now also an app
Most of these memes are ironic, but this one is actually true. These apps could just be websites, but instead they're bloated spyware
Many of these apps could just be menus.
Even menu websites are chock full of Javascript for no reason. It could be a JPEG!
Menus should be PDFs so they are searchable.
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
One of the most ironic things is if you willingly download the app version of a website, hoping it would speed things up and reduce internet data usage, just for the app to be using WebView or some other micro-browser engine which will essentially be the same as if you were visiting the website using your browser as before.
Thanks for nothing.
Ugh even my weed dealer wants me to install their app. When will it end?
Unironically this. There's nothing these stupid apps do that they couldn't do on a fucking browser from 2018. If you want people to use the stupid app over the site, then please have only the stupid app and ditch the "just pretending it works" site and for fuck's sake, don't make the stupid app a javascript mess, because THAT could've been a fucking site instead.
Buddy, these apps could have been done in php and ajax 15 years 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.
TFW someone makes a desktop app but it’s literally just a bundled chrome browser page
Lychee, a slicer software for 3D printing, immediately comes to mind. It's a fucking electron app. It also only works if you login to a fucking account, even the free version, because fuck you. Oh, and free users have to sit through 30 seconds of advertising whenever they click "Slice", because fuck you again
this unironically
An app for a fucking cemetary!? Nuh-uh
That's how you get a haunted phone